Woman found guilty of murdering husband in 2021 sentenced to life in prison

COLUMBUS, Ga. ( WRBL ) — A woman who shot her husband of 10 days in the back and killed him in 2021 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Muscogee County Superior Court.

Charise Douglas was convicted last month of felony murder, malice murder and aggravated assault in the death of John Anthony Johnson.

Muscogee County Superior Court Judge Bobby Peters passed a sentence that will keep the 34-year-old Tennessee woman in prison for the remainder of her life.

It took the jury 45 minutes to make their ruling back on Aug. 30. She fired her attorney Anthony Johnson and immediately began an appeal.

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