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Lesbian couple sentenced for arranging the murder of one partner's husband

NEW YORK (AP) Two lesbian lovers were sentenced to at least 30 years in separate prisons yesterday for arranging the murder-for-hire of the younger woman's husband to get his $100,000 insurance and further their homosexual liaison.

"I was tried for gayety, not for murder," 29-year-old Carol Taylor told the court. "I was tried as a lesbian."

"I had the most disgusting, unfair trial anyone could get in a court," said the other defendant, Elizabeth Taylor, when it came her turn to stand before state Supreme Court Justice Harold Hyman, the sentencing judge.

Hyman stipulated that the two be placed in separate prisons. They are not related.

Hyman called Carol Taylor, mother of two small sons, "completely evil, a self-appointed executioner." Her husband Herbert was the victim. He said Elizabeth Taylor, 40, the mother of a teen-age son and daughter, was older and more experienced and took part in the murder to satisfy her own ends, "both" sexual and financial."

The two were convicted June 7 of arranging a $10,000 contract for murdering Herbert Taylor, 30. He was shot to death March 14, 1976, in a Queens bungalow where he lived alone after his wife left him to be with her lover. The hired killer never was arrested.

The women had deserted their families to live together.

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