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Husband receives 45-year sentence for murder

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A 50-year-old Des Plaines-area man convicted of killing his wife of 26 years was sentenced to 45 years in prison Friday. In November, jurors took 40 minutes to decide Heriberto Ramirez stabbed his wife 34 times during a Valentine's Day fight in 2011 inside their mobile home in an unincorporated portion of Cook County near O'Hare International Airport.