The Latest: Man who killing scholar pleased his life spared

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing deliberations in scholar’s slaying (all times local):
3:25 p.m.
A man convicted of slaying a visiting Chinese scholar dropped his head when he heard that his own life would be spared, smiled and looked to see his mother say that she loved him.
Brendt Christensen’s will serve a sentence of life in prison because a federal jury said Thursday it could not unanimously agree he should receive the death penalty in the 2017 abduction, r