A 31-year-old Kansas woman is headed to prison for decades for murdering her U.S. Army soldier husband as he held their baby, while her 9-year-old daughter brushed her hair in a nearby bathroom.

Margaret E. Shafe on Friday was sentenced to 293 months — over 24 years — in prison for the February 2024 shooting death of her husband Greg Shafe on the Fort Riley military base, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas said in a press release . A jury convicted her of second-degree murder on Valentine's Day.

According to a sentencing memorandum , Margaret Shafe threatened to kill her husband just minutes before she followed through on the act on Feb. 19, 2024.

"I'm going to make him feel my f—ing pain, and he just laughs at me," she said just after 7 p.m. on the night of the murde

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