NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Orleans Parish District Attorney's office announced that prosecutors secured three separate homicide convictions Wednesday, Aug. 27.

According to the DA's office, two of the convictions were Ramos retrials. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned homicide verdicts that were the result of non-unanimous juries, requiring them to be retried.

Horatio Johnson was convicted for the 2014 killings of Kenneth and Lakeitha Joseph in a Ramos retrial. Their bodies were discovered bound to kettlebells and dumped into the Intracoastal Waterway. Johnson was sentenced to 120 years in state prison.

Laurence McKee was convicted of the 2016 killing of Justin Scott, his childhood friend, in a Ramos retrial. The jury rejected McKee's claim of self-defense after prosecutors presented foren

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