DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A DeKalb County judge sentenced a man to life in prison after he was found guilty of murdering a brother and sister 35 years ago.
Last week, a jury found Kenneth Perry guilty on murder and all other counts in the deaths of John Sumpter and Pamela Sumpter.
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Prosecutors argued he raped Pamela Sumpter and then stabbed both of the siblings at the brother’s Stone Mountain apartment in 1990. Perry claimed that the Sumpters and another man drugged him the night he was at the apartment and sexually assaulted him.
Jurors deliberated just over two hours before returning a verdict.
On Tuesday, the judge sentenced Perry to three life sentences to run consecutively plus 100 years.
The impact statements the victims’ family gave before the sentencing, today on Channel 2 Action News at Noon.
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