(AP) — A military judge has sentenced a Hawaiʻi-based soldier to 62 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to pre-mediated murder for brutally beating and stabbing his wife. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported the Army’s prosecutor sought the full 65-year term for 24-year-old Spc. Raul Hernandez Perez. The plea agreement called for a sentence of between 50 and 65 years. Hernandez Perez admitted he bashed his wife on the head four times with a baseball bat as she slept in her home on the Schofield Barracks base and then stabbed her in the back four times to make sure she was dead.

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