The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the 100-year sentence of an Illinois teen convicted of abducting and murdering an Indiana woman during a 1996 crime spree.
Lawyers for Joseph Henson Jr., 19, had argued the judge who sentenced Henson last year should have held separate trials, one on the murder case and one for the crime spree that followed.
Henson, of Paris, Ill., was convicted of abducting Donna Heseman at gunpoint from the parking lot of Mead Johnson Nutritionals in Evansville on July 26, 1996, as he and his accomplice, Jason Wentz, were running away to Florida.
Henson killed Heseman after she crashed her car into a fence near the company’s guard shack shortly after she was abducted.
After the murder, Henson and Wentz went on an 11-hour crime spree in which they stole three automobiles, broke into a home and stole a truck.
