David McDonald Heath, 42, received 277 months -- 23 years -- and Neva Lynn Honeycutt, 41, received 240 months (20 years). Jackson County Judge Dan Harris handed down the sentences at a hearing on Friday afternoon.

Harris also ordered Heath and Honeycutt to jointly pay two victims a total of $12,044."I think they deserved more," said Jackson County Deputy District Attorney John Bondurant. "They both are dangerous people."

He said the sentences would set them free in their 60s and they could possibly commit more crimes.

The couple's convictions stemmed from a burglary and robbery last year in the Central Point area.

They were arrested on July 1 in Truth or Consequences, N.M., after Honeycutt walked into the police station and complained that Heath had menaced her.

At the hearing on Friday, Honeycutt, wearing her green jail fatigues, brown sandals and leg restraints, came in first for her sentence and then was led out. Heath, who has regrown a beard since his trial and wore his hair in a ponytail, was brought in directly after her.

Neither Heath, Honeycutt nor any of the victims chose to speak to the court.

Bondurant told the judge that Bob Cameron, one of the elderly victims of the robbery who was pistol whipped during the crime, has had medical problems since the attack.

He said Heath struck Cameron and it was a cowardly act.

"There was no reason or rhyme for Mr. Heath to beat Mr. Cameron with a pistol," Bondurant said. "He didn't need to do that to commit the robbery."

Then, Bondurant read a short statement from Cameron's family. The statement said Cameron was a "lost, hurt, confused and angry man."

"All this has come about because Neva Honeycutt and David Heath killed the spirit of our father, grandfather and great-grandfather," Bondurant read.

Public defender Lorenzo Mejia, representing Honeycutt, asked that the court remember that Honeycutt turned herself in to police.

Heath's attorney, Robert Abel, said his client had not committed a felony since the 1970s and the court should take that into consideration. He asked that Heath's criminal record be compared with Honeycutt's.