Alabama grandmother gets life in prison for running grandchild, nine, to death

Joyce Hardin Garrard, described by prosecutors as the 'drill sergeant from hell', given life without parole for killing her granddaughter, Savannah An Alabama woman convicted of running her nine-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for lying about candy has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On Monday Joyce Hardin Garrard, the diminutive grandmother described by prosecutors as the "drill sergeant from hell", told the court that if she could have anything...