Nathan Johnson brutally beat and sodomized a man before setting his corpse on fire when he was 16-years-old. Now, he will spend 75 years in jail for those gruesome actions.

BARTOW — Debbie Odom Gardner released a deep sigh Thursday as a Circuit Court clerk announced the jury’s verdict in the first-degree murder trial of 18-year-old Nathan Johnson.

Nathan Johnson, who was two days shy of his 17th birthday the day Robert Banks was brutally beaten and sodomized in January 2016, has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for Banks' murder.

Nathan Johnson, 19, in a sentence hearing for the first-degree murder of Robert Banks in Bartow in May. The sentence was handed down Friday.

Nathan Johnson is accused of participating in the brutal Jan. 14, 2016 Lakeland murder of 31 year-old Robert Banks.

Testimony wrapped up on Aug. 16 in the first degree murder trial of Nathan Johnson. Witness told court she saw Johnson participate in attack Video of detectives questioning Johnson show his ...