JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 30 -- The Alaska Department of Law (Attorney General) issued the following news release:

August 24, 2026

(Anchorage, AK) - On Aug. 21, 2026, Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson sentenced Brian Hall, 50, to 99 years in prison for a 1993 double murder.

On April 16, 1993 Brian Hall, then 17, murdered two unarmed men, Mickey Dinsmore and Stanley Honeycutt, in the Stuckagain Heights neighborhood in Anchorage. Following a jury trial, Hall was found guilty of first-degree and second-degree murder. Judge Rene Gonzalez sentenced Hall to a total of 159 years to serve for the murders. The convictions and sentences were upheld on direct appeal in 1998 and 1999. In the following decades, numerous courts affirmed the guilty verdi...