SPOKANE, Wash – A man convicted of killing two people in a 2008 murder is being resentenced Monday in Spokane County Superior Court.
Justin Crenshaw killed 18-year-old Sarah Clark and 20-year-old Tanner Pehl in 2008.
He stabbed them to death, then posed their bodies with swords and set the house on fire.
Crenshaw was sentenced to life without parole, but a Washington Supreme Court decision in 2001 erased that.
The decision says that offenders between 18 and 21 years of age have to be considered youthful offenders and can’t be given fixed life sentences.
Crenshaw was 20 years and two months old at the time of the murders.
Since he’s been in prison, Crenshaw has been convicted of fatally injuring his cellmate in Virginia.
Court records say he also attacked inmates in Washington and New Mexico.
Those violent acts, along with many other infractions, will be part of what the state uses to push for a strong sentence.
Crenshaw is one of fewer than 30 Washington inmates eligible for resentencing under this decision.
The sentencing gets underway Monday morning and could last up to three days.
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