Missouri man sentenced to life plus 100 years for stabbing

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A 33-year-old Springfield man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 100 years over the December 2019 fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old woman in an isolated field.

Missouri law required the sentence of life without parole after a jury in May found Lonnie Williams guilty of first-degree murder.

But the jury also convicted him of armed criminal action.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that during Friday’s sentencing, Greene County Circuit Judge Becky Borthwick added the additional 100 years for the armed criminal action after hearing a statement from victim Mackenna Milhon’s mother.

She described her pain in seeing her daughter’s life cut short.