USA - Oregon. A jury sentenced Angela McAnulty, 42, white, to death

A Lane County jury unanimously sentenced Angela McAnulty, 42, white, to death for the murder of her daughter Jeanette Maples in December 2009. A few minutes later, judge Kip Leonard upheld the sentence. Investigators say the McAnulty tortured and starved Maples to death. Jeanette was so badly maimed by the time she died in December 2009 that the medical examiner could not determine a single cause of death. Richard McAnulty, McAnulty’s husband, is also charged with aggravated murder in his step-daughter’s death, but trial testimony suggested that his wife inflicted most or all of Jeanette’s injuries. His trial is set for May. Angela McAnulty pleaded guilty Feb. 1 to aggravated murder. Her defense attorneys presented evidence that she, too, had a violent childhood. McAnulty is the only woman to receive a death sentence since Oregon voters reinstated the death penalty in 1984.