Convicted murderer given life sentence
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Convicted murderer given life sentence

Asher Martin was sentenced to life in prison Friday for second-degree murder and principal to arson in the 2020 stabbing death of Christopher Whaley, whose body was left in a burning van after he was killed, State Attorney Larry Basford announced. Circuit Court Judge Dustin Stephenson agreed with Prosecutor Devin Collier’s assessment that while the…