A Wisconsin man convicted for a second time of killing his spouse with antifreeze and by suffocation in 1998 was sentenced on Friday to life in jail with out parole.
A Kenosha County choose sentenced Mark Jensen, 63, who was convicted by a jury in February of first-degree intentional murder within the demise of his spouse, Julie Jensen.
Prosecutors alleged he poisoned Julie Jensen with antifreeze, and likewise drugged her with a sleeping remedy earlier than later suffocating her to demise of their Pleasant Prairie dwelling.
Jensen has maintained his innocence, together with his attorneys arguing that Julie Jensen was depressed and killed herself after framing her husband.
Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Anthony Milisauskas stated throughout Friday’s sentencing, “There’s no doubt in my mind Julie Jensen suffered for a long time.”
“He could have divorced her, separated, whatever, but he chose not to do that. What he chose to do was torture her for a long time,” Milisauskas said, according to WISN-TV.
Jensen was first was convicted in 2008 in his wife’s slaying and sentenced to life without parole.
But a Kenosha County judge vacated Jensen’s first conviction in April 2021 after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled he deserved a new trial.
The court found that a letter his wife wrote incriminating him should something happen to her could not be used by the prosecution.
Source: www.9news.com.au
