Woman
sentenced to die for starving her 10-year-old stepdaughter to death
By
Associated Press
Posted on
May 1, 2019
ATLANTA (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to die by
lethal injection for starving her stepdaughter to death in an Atlanta suburb in
2013.
Tiffany Moss, 36, showed no emotion as the Gwinnett
County jury delivered the death sentence Tuesday morning, according to the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
On Monday, Moss was found guilty of all counts,
including murder, cruelty to children and trying to conceal the death of
10-year-old Emani Moss by burning her body in a trash can.
Moss represented herself at trial and mounted no
defense. She made no opening statement or closing argument and called no
witnesses.
Her death sentence was the first handed down in
Georgia in more than five years.
At trial, prosecutors painted a damning picture of
Moss, who they said kept her young stepdaughter confined to a bedroom in their
Lawrenceville-area apartment, slowly starving her to death.
A medical examiner described how Emani wasted away
without food or water and lived in waste in her own bed because she'd become
too weak to move. Authorities say she weighed just 32 pounds when she died.
All the while, the woman fed and cared for her own
two children who lived in the same house.
Prosecutors highlighted text messages sent by
Tiffany Moss to her husband, Eman Moss, during the time when Emani was being
starved. At least twice, Moss sent her husband pictures of meals she had
prepared for him and the children that the couple shared.
Prosecutors said it likely took weeks for Emani to
die of starvation.
After the girl's death, Tiffany and Eman Moss
stuffed her emaciated body in a trash can and set it on fire.
Eman Moss is serving life in prison without parole
for his role in the crime, after pleading guilty to felony murder in 2015 in
exchange for testifying against his wife.
Late Monday, jurors asked Gwinnett Superior Court
Judge George Hutchinson if they could go home to "sleep on" the
sentencing decision after reaching an impasse.
The jury of six men and six women agreed to the
death sentence after resuming deliberations 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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