PITTSBURGH — The man charged in connection with a double stabbing in Carnegie entered a guilty plea in exchange for the death penalty being taken off the table, according to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office.
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Richard Mickens was charged with killing Luke Connolly and stabbing a 31-year-old woman at an apartment on Third Avenue in Carnegie last spring. The woman, Connolly’s girlfriend, told a courtroom that she watched him die after Mickens repeatedly stabbed him. She said she calmed him down until he fell asleep and she could escape.
Mickens was arrested in Scott Township as he let his dog outside.
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Officials with the district attorney’s office said Mickens pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty in the case. Mickens was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 11 to 22 years in prison.
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