Chicago Sun-Times
CARTHAGE, N.C. — Robert Stewart showed the same lack of emotion when a jury found him guilty of murder Saturday as witnesses say he displayed when he gunned down eight people at a North Carolina nursing home in one of the worst massacres in state history.
Stewart, 47, will not face the death penalty because jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, meaning they believe he lacked the premeditation and deliberation necessary for a first-degree conviction.
Stewart, a disabled painter and National Guard veteran, was sentenced to 141 to 177 years in prison.
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