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(NewsNation) — Maryland Sheriff Jeff Gahler is "satisfied" Rachel Morin's slayer volition ne'er spot the airy of time but believes helium deserved the decease penalty.
On Monday, Victor Martinez-Hernandez was sentenced to beingness imprisonment without parole for raping and murdering Morin, a azygous parent of five, portion she was jogging on a way successful Baltimore connected Aug. 5, 2023.
"Personally, I judge that's excessively bully for him," Gahler said of the sentence. "It's a shame we don't person a decease penalty, due to the fact that thing truthful horrific, that idiosyncratic forfeits their close to unrecorded amongst a civilized society, successful my opinion."
In full, Martinez-Hernandez was sentenced to beingness without parole for the complaint of murder, beingness for the complaint of rape successful the archetypal degree, 10 years for the complaint of third-degree enactment discourtesy and 30 years for the complaint of kidnapping. The justice ordered the charges to beryllium served consecutively.
"We are inactive not definite to this time however helium initially decided to people her, but effort was made evidently to beryllium connected the way astatine a clip erstwhile she was connected the trail," Gahler said. "He thought this through; helium had a plan."
Martinez-Hernandez is primitively from El Salvador and was successful the United States illegally. He was arrested successful June 2024 successful Tulsa, Oklahoma, aft a hunt that lasted astir a year.
