SALINA, Kan. (AP) A 37-year-old central Kansas man has been sentenced to at least 50 years in prison for killing his wife.
Judge Jerome Hellmer on Friday sentenced Davin R. Sprague to the `hard 50,” which is a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 50 years.
Sprague, of rural Saline County, was found guilty of first-degree murder in September in the death of his 28-year-old wife, Kandi Sprague.
The Salina Journal reports Hellmer ruled that the murder warranted the harsher sentence, and evidence presented about Sprague’s troubled childhood and emotional distress did not outweigh it.
Hellmer also ordered Sprague to register as a violent offender for 15 years upon his release and to pay more than $6,000 in restitution for the cost of Kandi Sprague’s funeral and his trial expenses.
