Watts sentenced to life in prison for fatal attempted bank robbery in Cairo

Friday, May 26, 2017

A man who stabbed three bank employees, leaving two of them dead in an attempted bank robbery in Cairo, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday in federal court to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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