Twenty years in prison isn’t enough for Donald Wayne Earhart.

A Superior Court of Justice jury in Goderich made that decision earlier this week after a week-long “faint hope” hearing where Earhart argued for earlier parole eligibility.

Earhart was 33 when he was convicted of first-degree murder in March 2008 for torturing and executing Ronald Sullivan, 42, a small-time London drug dealer who disappeared on Oct. 14, 2004.

Sullivan’s body was discovered months later, in May 2005, under branches in a South Huron woodlot along a road bordering Middlesex and Huron counties.

Section 745.6 of the Criminal Code of Canada, known as the faint hope clause, was repealed in 2011 but remains available to murderers or others serving life sentences for violent crimes if they were convicted before th

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