Kayson Pearson and Troy Hendrix, convicted of turning a family basement in Brooklyn into a torture chamber to savage and kill a college student and rape a 15-year-old girl, were sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
"You are going to be confined to a place where there is no love, where there is no compassion, which is cold and loveless," said Justice Albert Tomei of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. "And you will be consigned to that place for a very long time."
Justice Tomei, who played a major role in eliminating the death penalty in this state, ordered two life terms without parole for each defendant, followed by multiple terms of 25 years, pronouncing that a fitting end for men he described as lower than animals.
"Animals," Justice Tomei said, "do not torture each other."
The sentencing marked the final chapter of a three-year odyssey through the justice system, a case that began with homemade posters for a missing young woman, temporarily included capital charges and finally produced two months of court hearings by turns wild and tedious.
Kayson Pearson and Troy Hendrix, convicted of turning a family basement in Brooklyn into a torture chamber to savage and kill a college student and rape a 15-year-old girl, were sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
"You are going to be confined to a place where there is no love, where there is no compassion, which is cold and loveless," said Justice Albert Tomei of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn. "And you will be consigned to that place for a very long time."
Justice Tomei, who played a major role in eliminating the death penalty in this state, ordered two life terms without parole for each defendant, followed by multiple terms of 25 years, pronouncing that a fitting end for men he described as lower than animals.
"Animals," Justice Tomei said, "do not torture each other."
The sentencing marked the final chapter of a three-year odyssey through the justice system, a case that began with homemade posters for a missing young woman, temporarily included capital charges and finally produced two months of court hearings by turns wild and tedious.
