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In Illinois, a 58-year-old man will spend the rest of his life in prison for brutally killing an 80-year-old woman by strangling her with an electrical wire, stabbing her with scissors, and hitting her with a blunt object. According to court documents analyzed by Law&Crime, Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Madonia ordered David D. Smith to serve life in a state prison for the 2019 murder of Donna Bricker on Tuesday.

The term must be completed in full, thus Smith won't be qualified for parole, per the court docket. Smith was also given credit for 1,626 days of prior service. Smith also had his motion for a new trial rejected by Judge Madonia. The State Journal-Register reported that on January 6, 2019, authorities responded to a call at a home in the 700 block of West Elliott Street regarding a request for a welfare check. Bricker's family members dialed the dispatch center because they were concerned that she had not arrived for services at Third Presbyterian Church, where she frequently volunteered.

David D. Smith Age

David D. Smith is 72 years old.

David D. Smith Incident Detail

According to the Journal-Register, when first responders arrived on the scene, they discovered an older woman inside the house deceased. She was later identified as Bricker. Bricker had also been assaulted and stabbed, according to a subsequent autopsy, which revealed that ligature strangulation was the cause of her death.

Bricker's neighbor Smith, who was arrested by authorities in March 2019 and accused of her murder, had lived next door to Bricker for a while before she was killed. Madonia scolded Smith immediately, pointing out that the murderer had previously been found guilty of a nearly identical type of break-in.Madonia reportedly told the defendant, "You did all of this after spending decades of your life in prison for an eerily similar offense," according to Decatur NBC affiliate WAND.

The court doesn't think your possibility for rehabilitation justifies your release from custody. The judge must impose a sentence that forever shields the public from you.Smith was found guilty of one count of aggravated burglary and robbery in 1994 after breaking into the house of a 76-year-old lady, according to court records.

Smith addressed the court and angrily denied being involved in Bricker's death after allegedly apologizing to her family. According to Springfield ABC affiliate WICS, "I absolutely, positively had nothing to do with the death of Donna Bricker." There were many unanswered questions if you were in the courtroom and listened to the testimony and the state's case.Following the sentence hearing, Dan Wright, the state's attorney for Sangamon County, spoke with WICS and praised the result.

"We are satisfied with the court's ruling today. Simply put, the defendant is a monster incapable of rehabilitation, and he was given "the only just sentence permitted by Illinois law," according to Wright, who added that life in prison was "the only just sentence permitted by Illinois law."