SPOKANE, Wash - A man convicted of killing two young adults in Spokane in 2008 and also killing his cellmate in Virginia will get a second chance at freedom.

Justin Crenshaw will return to a Spokane courtroom for resentencing under a 2021 Washington State Supreme Court decision.

The ruling declared it unconstitutional to sentence anyone who committed crimes between ages 18 and 21 to life without parole, requiring courts to consider their youth.

Crenshaw was 20 years and two months old when he committed what prosecutors called a deliberate and especially cruel attack in 2008.

He stabbed Sarah Clark and Tanner Pehl to death, posed their bodies with swords, then set the house on fire. A judge sentenced him to life without parole.

Crenshaw's violence didn't end there. While imprisoned in

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