USA - A federal jury in Virginia sentenced Jorge Torrez to death

A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Jorge Torrez, 25, hispanic, to death. The man, a Marine at the time of the murder, was sentenced for the July 2009 murder of Navy Petty Officer Amanda Snell, 20, at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington. On the verdict form, the jury also unanimously concluded that Torrez also killed two young girls — 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and 9-year-old Krystal Tobias — in 2005 in Illinois when he was just 16. In 2010, Torrez committed a series of stalking attacks on three women in northern Virginia, including one who was raped, choked and left for dead. It was Torrez's arrest in those cases that helped investigators tie him to Snell's murder and the Illinois slayings. Semen found on one of the girls was linked by DNA evidence to Torrez. He is already serving a life sentence for the Arlington attacks.