Jurors Tuesday spared the life of a former 911 dispatcher convicted of using a sweet, odorless chemical in antifreeze to kill her boyfriend in 2001 -- the same way she had poisoned her husband six years earlier.Lynn Turner could have faced the death penalty. Instead, the jury sentenced her to life in prison without parole.
Turner was already serving life in prison following her 2004 conviction for the antifreeze death of her police-officer husband in 1995.
She had maintained her innocence in both cases and did not testify at trial or during her sentencing hearing Monday. Her mother, Helen Gregory, tearfully pleaded with the jury for Turner's life.
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