{"id":95228,"date":"2023-02-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-yakutat-murder\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:30:00","slug":"man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-yakutat-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-yakutat-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 20 years in Yakutat murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of second-degree murder following a fatal stabbing in Yakutat.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/jury-returns-mixed-verdict-in-yakutat-killing-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Jury returns mixed verdict in Yakutat killing trial]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>John Lee Stapleton, 51, was sentenced on Monday in the October 2018 murder of John Fergerson.<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton was previously found guilty of manslaughter and second-degree murder and not guilty of first-degree murder following a three-week trial that concluded late last January.<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton was arrested in October 2018 in Yakutat after emergency services received a call about a man not breathing, the Empire previously reported. That man was identified as Fergerson, who was found lying on the floor without a pulse and not breathing when police officers from the Yakutat Borough Police Department arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Jonson Kuhn at jonson.kuhn@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of second-degree murder following a fatal stabbing in Yakutat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":95229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-95228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95228"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=95228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}