A judge on Friday sentenced 20-year old Yolanda Thompson to life in prison without parole for the murder of a Union County High School student.
Prosecutors say Yolanda Thompson's husband, Pernell, was infatuated with 16-year old Marisha Jeter. They say Yolanda told Pernell to prove his love for her by killing Jeter.
"She set this in motion and then helped her husband carry it out," said 16th Circuit Solicitor Kevin Brackett.
In January 2008, the Thompsons lured Jeter to the YMCA parking lot where they beat her and stabbed her 33 times with a kitchen knife. They took her body to the Broad River near Lockhart, stripped off her clothes and covered her body with rocks. Then they set her car on fire.
After being confronted with evidence, the Thompsons confessed to the murder. They pleaded guilty earlier this year. Pernell Thompson was sentenced to life in prison in September.
At Yolanda's sentencing on Friday, she sobbed as she asked Jeter's family for forgiveness and asked the judge for mercy.
"I ask for forgiveness from the Jeter family and forgiveness from the entire community and from the people I have hurt," said Thompson, who has a 3-year old daughter.
The victim's father, Manning Jeter, asked Judge Lee Alford to enforce the maximum sentence.
"She should get the same penalty her husband received," said Jeter. "They deserve to have to look at each other every day of their life for the rest of their lives in the same cage together."
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