A Newport News man has been sentenced to life behind bars in the brutal slaying of his mother three years ago.

And now he’s now charged with killing another man — a crime he had previously been charged with before his mother was slain.

Lance Moton-Stith, 29, pleaded guilty in July to first-degree murder and related counts in the April 2022 slaying of 53-year-old Yolanda Michelle Moton.

A state autopsy report said Moton had 12 stab and slashing wounds to her face and neck. Prosecutors said Moton-Stith used two screwdrivers and a “blade-like object” to kill her.

A gaping slash to Moton’s neck nearly decapitated her, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Rebecca Thompson said at a sentencing hearing last month.

Lance Moton-Stith, 29, was sentenced to life in prison in the 2022 killing of his

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