Former OU student Alan Hruby will serve three consecutive life sentences in prison without parole after a judge accepted a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
Stephens County District Attorney Jason Hicks said if Hruby agreed to change his pleas from not guilty to guilty, he would serve the life sentences instead of receiving the death penalty. He pled guilty to three charges of first degree murder in the shootings of his mother, father and teen sister.
Despite agreeing to the life sentences, Hicks said he still preferred the death penalty in Hruby's case. However, he said it was the family's wish for Hruby to not receive the death penalty, and that he didn't want to stand in the way of said wish.
As part of the plea deal, Hruby made a statement to his family about what happened and is not allowed further contact with his family unless his family initiates it.
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