A northeastern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 12½ to 40 years in prison in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend two years ago.
A Luzerne County jury convicted 46-year-old Robert Zola of Mountain Top of third-degree murder in the December 2009 death of 35-year-old Rosemarie Cave.
Prosecutors said Zola waited for Cave to return to her Plymouth Township home and then stabbed her eight times.
Zola apologized Wednesday and said he loved the victim and misses her.
Defense attorneys argued at trial that their client was intoxicated and went to the home for closure, not to kill the victim.
Judge Joseph Cosgrove said he believed the defendant has become a different person and urged him to enter a 12-step rehabilitation program and get mental health treatment.
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