Comment #: NE14
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
Sentenced an 80 year old woman to 8 to 10 years in prison after she killed her abuser. Read more here (excerpts below): https://www.wect.com/2021/07/15/80-year-old-woman-sentenced-8-10-years-husbands-murder/?s=04&fbclid=IwAR2d4rAeZg277q0WXQwm3SmLbSnUE3DXKI5GquzL5p0opIf0_ctZ-yfqkQs

|| Lavetta Langdon appeared in Red Willow County Court July 12 for sentencing after being convicted of murdering her husband, Larry Langdon, in August 2020.

|| Court documents said she shot him twice in his sleep and confessed to the police.

|| KNOP reported the two had been married since 1960. Lavetta Langdon, who is 80 years old, said she was abused by her husband for over 50 years.


The judge’s comments at sentencing:

|| “I have to consider what is fair to you, protect the public, and rehabilitate you. I have to consider many factors: age, criminal history, education, etc. Involuntarily manslaughter carries a maximum of 20 years. There is no question that you, Lavetta, suffer from battery women’s syndrome. No question that you lived in hell, but my review of reports and security camera footage sees the murder unjustified,” said Judge Urbom. “Your attorney argued domestic violence. The bottom line, you killed a man in cold blood. There is no way I can put you on probation. No one deserved to be murdered. Any less of a sentence I would impose would not be good.”