Sentence: Life in Prison for Afghan Massacre

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was sentenced by a military jury on Friday to life in prison without a chance of parole for a killing spree of 16 Afghans in 2012. 

Bales, 40,  in a deal to avoid the death sentence, the father of two pleaded guilty in June to premeditated murder. 

"I'm truly, truly sorry to those people whose families got taken away," he said in a USA Today news report. "If I could bring their family members back, I would in a heartbeat."

Defense attorneys John Henry Browne and Emma Scanlan sought a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years according to the USA Today news report.