Utah’s ‘Clearfield Rapist’ avoids death penalty, gets life in prison for Wyoming murder
EVANSTON, Wyo. (KSTU) — Mark Douglas Burns has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2001 murder of Sue Ellen Gunderson Higgins in Evanston, Wyoming. The ruling dashed Burns’ hopes of receiving the death penalty. Judge Joseph Bluemel agreed with prosecutors that a death sentence would not be an appropriate punishment for … Read more