(Palm Beach Post) Corey Johnson apologized Thursday for killing 13-year-old Jovanni Sierra at a 2018 sleepover. He even denounced ISIS — the militant Islamic group that his lawyers say influenced his thinking before the murder — at his sentencing.
“I know I contributed to the spread of evil in this world,” Johnson, now 21, told the court. “In one single night, I destroyed the lives of friends, families and even strangers. I attacked the people who were like a second family to me.”
But it wasn’t enough.
Circuit Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo sentenced Johnson to life in prison at the end of the three-hour hearing in West Palm Beach.
“I do not think rehabilitation is likely,” Caracuzzo told Johnson in announcing his sentencing and denying his request to spend 40 years in prison instead. She cited his willingness to kill for extremist views.
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