Chapter 23 - THE SENTENCING OF THE TYRANT
Three weeks later, the courtroom reconvened for the formal sentencing hearing under towering American oak panels.
Eleanor Sterling stood before the bench, wearing her coarse orange jumpsuit, looking like a ghost of her former self.
"Mrs. Sterling, your actions demonstrated a profound lack of remorse, a twisted sense of entitlement, and murderous intent," Judge Henderson stated coldly.
"I sentence you to twenty-five years in federal prison without the possibility of parole."
The gavel struck the sound block with a sharp, thunderous crack that signaled the definitive end of her tyrannical rule.
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Ushers placed handcuffs on Eleanor immediately, leading her away through the side doors toward the penitentiary transport van.
She did not look back, her head bowed low as she disappeared from public life forever.
