A 25-year-old woman in Illinois will spend several decades behind bars for her role in the brutal killing of her boyfriend, who was beaten with a baseball bat and shot multiple times two years ago.

McLean County Circuit Judge William Yoder on Tuesday ordered Gabrielle A. Stine to serve 40 years in a state correctional facility for the slaying of 31-year-old Jamere Bew, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Yoder handed down the sentence immediately after Stine formally pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder . In exchange for pleading to Bew's murder, prosecutors agreed to dismiss one count of kidnapping while armed with a firearm, per court records .

Stine was credited with 475 days of time already served. Following the end of her incarceration, which must be served in-f

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