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Shawn Lamb pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of two Indigenous women \u2014 Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith \u2014 and was sentenced to 20 years the following year. Lamb received statutory release earlier this month after serving two-thirds of his sentence. Offenders serving life or indeterminate sentences are not eligible for statutory release. Melissa Robinson&#8217;s cousin, Morgan Harris, was killed by someone else in 2022, and Robinson says she would like to see consecutive life sentences in any case where someone is charged with multiple counts of homicide. 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Shawn Lamb pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of two Indigenous women \u2014 Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith \u2014 and was sentenced to 20 years the following year. Lamb received statutory release earlier this month after serving two-thirds of his sentence. Offenders serving life or indeterminate sentences are not eligible for statutory release. Melissa Robinson&#8217;s cousin, Morgan Harris, was killed by someone else in 2022, and Robinson says she would like to see consecutive life sentences in any case where someone is charged with multiple counts of homicide. 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