GILLETTE (AP) - A man accused of playing a role in the murder of a 19-year-old man last year has been sentenced to life without parole.

District Judge Michael "Nick" Deegan sentenced Christopher Robert Hicks, 20, on Friday.

A jury convicted Hicks last September of conspiring to murder Jeremy Forquer. Hicks also was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy in the death of another teen, 16-year-old Bryce Chavers.

The jury sentenced Hicks to life without parole in the Chavers case. Sentencing in the Forquer killing was left up to the judge.

Deegan ordered that the sentences should be served consecutively.

"I don't see any remorse, any purpose that leniency would be served in this case," Deegan said.

Before Deegan announced the sentence, Chavers' mother and Forquer's father told the court how their children's murders had wrecked their lives.

"Chris, I have let you into my own home and treated you like one of my own kids," Tammy Porter, Chavers' mother, told Hicks. "I cannot even begin to tell you the betrayal I feel. The images I see when I try to sleep will never go away."

Neither Porter nor Clinton Forquer, Jeremy Forquer's father, called for vengeance, yet both made it clear they didn't expect leniency either.

Forquer recalled the painful details of his son's strangling and how the murderers dumped the body on a cold stretch of Wyoming prairie.

"The only thing I ask today is that you show the same mercy he showed my son - no more, no less," Forquer said.

Prosecutor Bill Edelman reminded Deegan that the presentence investigation report had noted a lack of remorse from Hicks.

"According to Mr. Hicks, he's not a violent person and he didn't do anything wrong," he quoted the report.

Hicks disputed the lack of remorse.

"I just want to say that each and every day my heart does break for all the families, and I am truly sorry," he said in a statement.

The cases of three of the four originally charged in the killings have resulted either in conviction or guilty pleas.

The trial of Kent Alan Proffit Sr., who is accused of ordering both murders, began Monday on charges connected to Forquer's death. His trial on charges connected to Chavers' death will follow the first trial.