Teen Sentenced in Murder
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<i> Associated Press</i>
TOWSON, Md. — A 16-year-old boy was sentenced to life in prison without parole for stabbing a counselor 26 times in an elaborate plot to escape from a psychiatric hospital with his 15-year-old girlfriend.
Because of his age, Benjamin Garris could not have received the death penalty for the 1995 murder of Sharon Edwards, a counselor in a residential cottage at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital.
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