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PINE BLUFF, Ark.—An Arkansas woman accused of a double slaying was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

It was the second trial for Ymari Boyce-Reid, 21, after an earlier jury couldn’t agree on a verdict. Jurors deliberated for about five hours Wednesday before convicting Boyce-Reid of first-degree murder, rather than capital murder, with which she was charged.

Boyce-Reid, 21, was charged in the Jan. 16, 2006, slayings of Angela Hicks, 36, and Christopher Allen, 39, in the front yard of a Pine Bluff home.

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