The illegal migrant who brutally raped and murdered Rachel Morin will spend the rest of his life in prison, a Maryland judge decreed Monday.

The man convicted of killing Maryland mother Rachel Morin has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, bringing an end to a case that has gripped the community of Bel Air for more than a year.

An unauthorized immigrant from El Salvador was sentenced to life without parole on Monday for the brutal 2023 killing of a Maryland woman while she was on a hiking trail. It was a coda to a case that Republicans have seized on to justify harsher immigration policies.