HOUSTON — A Houston woman was sentenced to life in prison Friday for fatally stabbing her boyfriend with the 5½-inch stiletto heel of her shoe, striking him at least 25 times in the face and head.
Ana Trujillo was convicted of murder Tuesday by the same jury for killing Alf Stefan Andersson, 59, during an argument last June at his Houston condo. The defense argued that Trujillo, 45, was defending herself from an attack by Andersson, who was a University of Houston professor.
‘‘I never meant to hurt him,’’ Trujillo said before the judge sentenced her. ‘‘It was never my intent. I loved him. I wanted to get away. I never wanted to kill him.’’
Andersson’s niece, Ylva Olofsson, said the family was happy with the verdict.
Prosecutors said jurors told them that it was the physical evidence that proved to them this was not self-defense. ‘‘She hit him 25 times in the head. That is a hard thing to overcome,’’ said prosecutor John Jordan.
Trujillo’s attorney, Jack Carroll, said he thought the life sentence was too harsh.
Jordan asked jurors for life in prison. Carroll had asked jurors to find that his client acted in the heat of sudden passion, which would have limited her sentence.