Three men were given life sentences on Thursday for the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a motorcycle shop in southern Florida while being robbed of $50,000 US.
Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were each convicted last month of first-degree murder and armed robbery by a jury following eight days of deliberations.
Prosecutors had not sought the death penalty, so life in prison was the only sentence that Broward County Circuit Judge Michael Usan could impose for the first-degree murder convictions.
During the month-long trial, prosecutors linked Boatwright, Williams and Newsome to the June
