A woman who was sentenced to a decade in prison for suffocating a Canadian tourist to death by stuffing his mouth with sand has been elected to the city council of Bangor, Maine — the town that helped inspire Stephen King’s horror novel It.

Angela Walker was elected a Bangor council member this week, 22 years after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges alongside her brother, Benjamin Humphrey, in the 2002 death of a Canadian tourist, Derek Rogers.

Online critics considered her election an outrage, while Walker herself said she hoped to serve as an example of recovery from alcoholism and homelessness.

A post on X by Libs of Tik Tok, among others, generated thousands of views and critical commentary.

“America is so broken,” posted one observer. “Voters in Maine elected Angela W

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