Wichita ? More than a decade after he was sentenced to die for killing a woman and her toddler daughter, a Wichita man has been sentenced to life in prison.

Michael Marsh, 33, will serve more than 62 years before becoming eligible for parole under a plea agreement reached with Sedgwick County prosecutors.

“His parole board hasn’t been born yet; that’s the upside of this,” Deputy District Attorney Kevin O’Connor said after the hearing Friday.

A Sedgwick County jury found Marsh guilty in 1997 of first-degree murder in the death of Marry Ane Pusch, 22, and guilty of capital murder in the death of her 19-month-old daughter, Marry Elizabeth.

Testimony at the trial showed that Marsh broke into the Pusch home on June 17, 1996, with the intention of committing a robbery. Wichita police said he shot and stabbed Marry Ane Pusch, then set a fire that resulted in the child’s death.

The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the first-degree murder conviction on appeal, but it overturned the capital murder conviction.

The reversal said a judge was too restrictive in the amount of evidence he allowed during the trial.

Under the plea agreement, Marsh pleaded guilty to a charge that was reduced from capital murder to first-degree felony murder. He also was convicted of aggravated arson and aggravated burglary.

District Judge Clark Owens ordered Marsh to serve all his sentences consecutively, which defense lawyer Jeff Wicks said would amount to more than 62 years.