EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Eugene, Ore., has decided an Oregon woman should be sentenced to death for torturing and killing her 15-year-old daughter. KVAL-TV reports jurors reached that decision late Thursday in the case of Angela McAnulty.
The woman addressed jurors for the first time on Wednesday, acknowledging she fatally abused her daughter, but adding: “I did not want my little girl to die.”
The 42-year-old McAnulty did not take the witness stand, choosing instead to make a personal statement not subject to cross-examination by prosecutors.
McAnulty pleaded guilty to aggravated murder the day her trial was set to open for torturing, beating and starving Jeanette Maples to death in 2009. The jury had to decide whether she should be sentenced to death or life in prison.
