A woman who was convicted in the grisly killing of her stepdaughter by starvation has been sentenced to death by lethal injection.
Tiffany Moss, 36, showed no emotion on Tuesday morning as a jury in Gwinnett County, Georgia delivered the death sentence for the murder of 10-year-old Emani Moss in 2013.
On Monday, Moss was found guilty of all counts, including murder, cruelty to children and trying to conceal the death of Emani by burning her body in a trash can. The girl weighed just 32 pounds when she died.
Moss represented herself at trial and mounted no defense. She made no opening statement or closing argument and called no witnesses, saying she hoped that God would see her through the case.
Tiffany Moss watches as the jury is polled about the verdict sentencing her to death on Tuesday in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Moss was found guilty of all counts including murder, cruelty to children and trying to conceal the death of 10-year-old stepdaughter Emani Moss
Emani (left and right) weighed just 32 pounds when she died of starvation in 2013. The court heard that Moss and her husband tried to burn the girl's body in a trash can
Eman Moss testified that he and Tiffany stuffed Emani's body in a trash can and burned it in front of their two other children. He pleaded guilty for a life sentence in exchange for testifying
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.
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
