3 sentenced in Wal-Mart slaying
Amber Talbot watches as family and friends arrive in the courtroom in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009. Talbot was one of three friends sentenced for their roll in the stabbing death of Christopher Grey last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Anthony Howe listens to the judge in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009. Howe was one of three friends sentenced for their roll in the stabbing death of Christopher Gray last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Amber Talbot listens to the judge in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009.Talbot was one of three friends sentenced for their roll in the stabbing death of Christopher Gray last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Timothy Smith speaks to family and friends of murder victim Christopher Gray in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009. Smith was one of three friends sentenced for their roll in the stabbing death of Christopher Gray last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Amber Talbot listens to Christoper Gray's family in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009.Talbot was one of three friends sentenced for their roll in the stabbing death of Christopher Gray last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Three friends who played a part in the killing of a developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier in New Hampshire last year from far left, Timothy Smith, third from left, Anthony Howe, and fifth from left Amber Talbot are seen in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009. All three were sentenced for their part in the killing of Christopher Gray. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Amber Talbot watches as family and friends arrive in the courtroom in Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H. Monday Dec. 21, 2009. Talbot was one of three friends sentenced for their roll in the stabbing death of Christopher Grey last year. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
NORTH HAVERHILL – Three friends who played a part in the killing of a developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier in New Hampshire are going to prison.
Timothy Smith, Anthony Howe and Amber Talbot pleaded guilty earlier this year in the death of 25-year-old Christopher Gray, of Groton, Vt., who prosecutors say was killed for taking a romantic interest in Talbot, who was the girlfriend of defendant Michael Robie.
Gray was stabbed more than 30 times in October 2008.
On Monday, Smith and Howe were sentenced to 40-years-to-life in prison and Talbot was sentenced to 25 to 50 years.
Robie was in jail on other charges when Gray was killed.
He allegedly orchestrated the attack from his jail cell.
He will be sentenced at a later date.
