GREENFIELD — Joshua Hart and Brittany Smith will spend their lives behind bars for murdering an elderly couple in Orange.
Judge John Agostini gave each Hart, 25, of Athol and Smith, 29, of Athol two life sentences without the possibility of parole, to be served consecutively in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Framingham.
Hart and Smith were stone-faced upon receiving their sentences at the Franklin County Justice Center.
Members of the Harty and Fisher families gave victim impact statements about the event, which Agostini called “evil.”
“We all have parents. We all see our parents age. We all live alone,” Agostini said.
On Oct. 5, 2016, Hart and Smith crept into the home of Thomas Harty, 95, and his wife Joanna Fisher, 77, murdered Harty and fatally wounded Fisher at 581 East River St.
Hart and Smith have 10 days to appeal their guilty convictions, and 20 to appeal their sentences.
According to Agostini, the only way they will get let out is by a pardon from the governor, and added “how unlikely that may be.”