FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A Hawaiian inmate at a private prison in Arizona pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing another inmate more than 100 times in 2010.

The Pinal County Attorney’s Office originally intended to seek the death penalty in the case.

But in January, prosecutors withdrew the chance of capital punishment for Micah Kanahele.

After the 36-year-old pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder, a judge sentenced him to a natural life sentence.

Kanahele admitted to killing 26-year-old Bronson Nunuha in February 2010 at the Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz.

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A Hawaiian inmate at a private prison in Arizona pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing another inmate more than 100 times in 2010.

The Pinal County Attorney’s Office originally intended to seek the death penalty in the case.

But in January, prosecutors withdrew the chance of capital punishment for Micah Kanahele.

After the 36-year-old pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder, a judge sentenced him to a natural life sentence.

Kanahele admitted to killing 26-year-old Bronson Nunuha in February 2010 at the Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz.