EASTON, Pa. (AP) An eastern Pennsylvania man will spend 20 to 40 years in prison for killing a 28-year-old woman who was found shot to death inside a pickup truck parked in an Easton alley.

The Express-Times (said 20-year-old Kahmir DeLapara was sentenced immediately after pleading guilty Wednesday to killing 28-year-old Amanda Stratford of Nanticoke back in September.DeLapara apologized to the victim's family in Northampton County Court as well as his own parents.Stratford's mother said her daughter was a good person and didn't deserve to die that way, no matter what she had done in her past. Police had said the victim was a fixture in the regional drug trade.Information from: The (Easton, Pa.) Express-Times,

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