A 20-year-old Mansfield man was sentenced Monday to what will amount to a life sentence without the possibility of parole plus 50 years for the robbery and murder of a Mansfield hotel clerk in April 2021. A De Soto Parish jury convicted Terry DeWayne Powell in January of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Lynda Palmer, the night desk clerk at the Best Western Plus DeSoto Inn & Suites in the 600 block of Jenkins Street in Mansfield.
