{"id":62697,"date":"2025-12-16T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62697\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:26:07","slug":"life-sentence-handed-down-for-murder-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62697\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-sentence handed down for murder in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Taylor man was sentenced to life in prison for the 2023 murder of his girlfriend in Scranton<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> judge sentenced a Taylor man to life-in-prison for killing his girlfriend in Scranton two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The life-sentence handed down by Judge Michael J. Barrasse is mandatory in a first-degree murder case. He pleaded guilty in September.<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ecc69573-5f37-4b3f-94e2-beb99d7a4f1a_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ecc69573-5f37-4b3f-94e2-beb99d7a4f1a_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Authorities said he brutally beat and killed Danielle Barbuti at a home on Luke Avenue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/man-charged-with-homicide-in-death-of-scranton-woman-luke-avenue-donnell-brunson-barbuti\/523-a3a758b9-61f7-4b49-914d-8f5680f5dd2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">November 2023<\/a>. She had severe head trauma and seemed have been violently attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson, 57, remained locked up Tuesday at the Lackawanna County Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Taylor man was sentenced to life in prison for the 2023 murder of his girlfriend in Scranton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-62697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}