When Stacey Torrance was sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole in a Philadelphia courtroom in 1988, the sentence
seemed somewhat unusual. First of all, life in prison is typically
reserved for perpetrators of violent crime. And while someone had been
killed during the chain of events that landed Torrance in front of a
judge, Torrance hadn’t planned or participated in the killing. Torrance
had agreed to lure Alexander Porter, the brother of a friend, to an
older acquaintance who planned to steal Porter’s keys and then burgle
the home of Porter’s father. But instead of simply stealing Porter’s
keys, the older acquaintance, along with an accomplice Torrance had
never met, tied him up and threw him into the trunk of their car.
Torrance, too, was tied up–something he had not agreed to. Torrance was
then taken to his mother’s home and released. Porter was driven away and
eventually killed by Torrance’s older acquaintances, who were later
tried for first-degree murder and eventually sentenced to a lifetime in
prison.
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