By Emily Crane For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:29 GMT, 7 March 2019 | Updated: 23:49 GMT, 7 March 2019
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Ronald Hamilton will spend the rest of his life in prison after being formally sentenced on Thursday over the 2016 killings of his wife Crystal Hamilton, 29, and 28-year-old officer Ashley Guindon
An Army staff sergeant convicted of fatally shooting his wife and a rookie Virginia police officer has been sentenced to seven consecutive life terms after he was spared the death penalty by a hung jury.
Ronald Hamilton will spend the rest of his life in prison after being formally sentenced on Thursday over the 2016 killings of his wife Crystal Hamilton, 29, and 28-year-old officer Ashley Guindon.
A jury spared Hamilton's life in October last year when it deadlocked on whether he should get the death penalty.
He was instead sentenced to multiple consecutive life sentences after the court heard emotional impact statements from the mothers of his two victims.
Guindon's mother called Hamilton a 'vicious, cold-blooded, heartless killer', while his former mother-in-law almost collapsed in the witness box.
'My heart is bleeding. He took everything. He's a coward ... He shot my daughter in the back,' Crystal's mother told the
