A Wausau man found guilty of killing Mai Rue Vang during an argument in 2021 will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Umberto Lo was sentenced Monday afternoon, four months after he was found guilty at trial.

But without that option, please, she asked the judge — sentence him to life in prison. That sentence was mostly a forgone conclusion: Burton was convicted of second-degree murder in February, a conviction that in Pennsylvania carries a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole.