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Man gets life without parole in beating death of 7-year-old

Markiece Palmer, the man convicted of beating seven-year-old Roderick
“RJ” Arrington to death in November of 2012, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the charge of first-degree murder as well as two 8-to-20 year sentences to run consecutively for each of two counts of child abuse in connection with the boy’s death.

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