Joshua Miner gets life sentence in Joliet double murder

JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- Joshua Miner was sentenced to life in prison in the murders of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins at a home in Joliet in January 2013.

"Just because he gets life in prison doesn't bring Eric and Terrance back so I don't know if there's such a thing as justice. You get them off the streets, so they can't do this to anyone else," Jamille Kent, Rankins' mother, said. Kent testified Wednesday about the impact of losing her son.

"I will never understand how someone could commit such a heinous act then appear to celebrate it," she told the judge. "(they) were partying while they planned the crime and continued to party after my son and Eric's lives were taken."

Miner, 26, was the mastermind behind the murders. Glover and Rankins were lured to the Joliet home for a party, robbed of $120 and strangled.

"You took my son's life for what? Cigarettes, beer, drugs? Is that worth throwing away your family and someone else's life away? No, it's not," Nicole Jones, Glover's mother, said.

Miner was found guilty in October after a bench trial. He did not speak Wednesday at his sentencing hearing.

"I wanted to hear him say he's sorry. Something. It didn't matter. Just say something," Jones said.

Three others were also charged in the murders of Glover and Rankins, both 22. Earlier this month, Bethany McKee was sentenced to life in prison. Adam Landerman, 21, is awaiting trial; and Alisa Massaro pleaded guilty to concealing their deaths, for which she received a 10-year prison sentence.