Clinger Gets Lfe in Prison

A DuBois man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the deaths of two Brooklyn, N.Y., residents during a 2006 kidnapping and robbery. Prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty for 27-year-old Jason "Spike" Clinger. He was convicted last week of first- and second-degree murder in the killings of 22-year-old Davon Jones and 21-year-old Dianikqua Johnson. During the death penalty phase of the trial, Clinger's mother and grandmother pleaded with jurors to spare his life.
Hunters found the bodies of Jones and Johnson in the woods of rural western Pennsylvania in November 2006. During the trial, a witness testified that Clinger killed them because they were drug dealers and no one would miss them.