Life terms for US men who killed Italian policeman

Finnegan Lee Elder listens to the verdict (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

An Italian jury convicted two US friends in the 2019 death of a police officer in a drug sting gone awry, sentencing them to life in prison.

The jury in Rome delivered more than 12 hours before delivering the verdicts against Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, 20, handing them Italy’s stiffest sentence.