BANGOR, Maine (AP) _ A judge has imposed a 50-year sentence on a Maine woman convicted of killing her husband using pliers, a box cutter and a plastic baseball bat during a jealous rage.
Justice E. Allen Hunter, who described Roxanne Jeskey's actions as ``monstrous savagery,'' imposed the sentence Friday after Jeskey apologized. WZON-AM reported that she told her family she felt she'd get ``the help I need.''
A medical examiner reported that Richard Jeskey was beaten and strangled and suffered cuts, punctures and bruises from head to toe. His naked body was found in a bathtub in June 2011. A neighbor testified that Jeskey was angry because her husband had been calling another woman.
Defense lawyers said Jeskey suffered from psychiatric disorders, seizures and problems associated with removal of a brain tumor.