‘It wasn’t a youthful indiscretion’: Teen who walked 15-year-old into the woods and executed him learns fate

A teenager in upstate New York will be spending significant time behind bars for his role in the execution-style killing of another boy.

On Wednesday, Ny’Zhon Thomas, 19, was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for one count of second-degree murder. The defendant was also sentenced to 15 years in prison on each of the two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. The court, however, assessed the lower sentences run concurrently with, or at the same time as, the murder sentence.

In handing down the sentence, Onondaga County Court Judge Melinda McGunnigle was withering in her estimation of the killer…

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