Laken Riley’s family gets a touch of justice after her killer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The killer, an illegal immigrant named Jose Ibarra, found out the sentencing from Judge H. Patrick Haggard who ruled on 10 criminal counts. Georgia does have the death penalty, but the prosecutors apparently pushed for a life sentence. A report on MSN stated:
Prosecutors called 28 witnesses while laying out what they said was evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Jose Ibarra killed Riley, who died by blunt force head trauma and asphyxia.
Special prosecutor Sheila Ross told the court Jose Ibarra encountered Riley while she was on her morning jog on Feb. 22 while he was out “hunting” for women on the Athens campus.
Ross said Riley “fought for her life” in a struggle that caused Jose Ibarra to leave forensic evidence behind. Digital and video evidence also pointed to him as the only killer, she said.
“The evidence in this case has been overwhelming, and the evidence in this case has spoken loud and clear — that he is Laken Riley’s killer, and that he killed her because she would not let him rape her,” Ross said during her closing argument on Wednesday.
This case was a major story across America as it pointed out that there’s a huge problem with the border, because some people coming to America illegally are then breaking other laws, such as committing murder among other violent crimes. Vetting people at the border was a big thing for anyone with common sense, but the last four years saw record numbers of illegal immigrants flooding the country.
The folks who break the law make it harder for the good people to start their new life in America. It wouldn’t be an issue if people didn’t break the law, because then pretty much everything would be fine. Except, that’s not reality and people do break the law – and unfortunately, many of those crimes are horrific.
