Wedding Day Stabbing Update: Pa. bride who killed fiancé says she still loves him prior to sentencing
(CBS/AP) ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Na Cola Franklin, an eastern Pennsylvania woman convicted of stabbing her fiancé to death on their wedding day, said she still loves him before being sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
Franklin, 32, was convicted of first-degree murder in the August death of 36-year-old Billy Brewster after an argument at their Whitehall Township apartment hours before their wedding ceremony.
Easton's The Express-Times newspaper reports Franklin said Tuesday before she was sentenced to the mandatory life term she hadn't meant to kill Brewster.
Franklin told the victim's mother in court, "I love him. I do still love him. I love him more than myself."
Defense attorney John Waldron has vowed an appeal. He argues Brewster came home drunk from an impromptu bachelor party and attacked Franklin.