Martin Blackwell of Georgia on Wednesday was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment after he poured boiling water on a gay couple he caught sleeping together.
On Feb. 12, Martin Blackwell found his girlfriend’s son and a friend sleeping together after the couple worked an overnight shift.
“You were soulless, malicious and a violent person on February 12,” judge Henry Newkirk told him on Wednesday'
“You had so many outs where the voice of reason could’ve taken over.”
“I
woke up to the most unimaginable pain in my entire life,” Tolbert, who
was scalded said during his tearful testimony. “I’m wondering why I’m in
so much pain. I’m wondering why I’m wet.”
Tolbert stayed for 10 days in the hospital, while Gooden was there for a month, including two weeks in a coma.
The
48-year-old was sentenced to 40 years in prison, after being found
guilty on all charges although his defense counsel argued he wasn’t
being hateful or malicious, and framed the attack as a lone lapse of
judgment. .
“I’m ecstatic,” Tolbert told reporters. “I think justice has been served.”
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