INDIANAPOLIS – An Indiana judge on Wednesday sentenced an Alabama man to 55 years in prison for fatally stabbing his 2-year-old son at his parents’ central Indiana home.
Micah Harrison of Robertsdale, Ala., was sentenced about two weeks after he pleaded guilty but mentally ill as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
Hamilton County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Andre Miksha said in a statement that “no one is really happy” with the plea agreement.
Prosecutors said Harrison stabbed his son, Michael, in the chest with a kitchen knife and in the forehead with a nail-pulling tool at his parents’ Noblesville apartment in January 2013. Harrison was 30 at the time.
Harrison originally sought an insanity defense, but prosecutors argued one of three mental health specialists who examined him concluded that he wasn’t insane at the time of the killing but was under the influence of drugs. Miksha said Harrison had a history of drug use and killed his son at the end of a weekend methamphetamine bender.