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A Tarrant County jury will decide if convicted killer Jason Thornburg will receive the death penalty.
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Thornburg was convicted of killing 3 people in Euless in 2021.
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He then dismembered the bodies and set them on fire inside a Fort Worth dumpster.
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Thornburg reportedly confessed to two other murders after his arrest.
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A Tarrant County jury will decide if convicted killer Jason Thornburg will receive the death penalty.
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Thornburg was convicted of killing 3 people in Euless in 2021.
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He then dismembered the bodies and set them on fire inside a Fort Worth dumpster.
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Thornburg reportedly confessed to two other murders after his arrest.
Texas’s Fort WorthJason Thornburg, a convicted murderer, will face closing arguments in his punishment phase on Wednesday morning.
In November, Thornburg, 44, was convicted of capital murder for the 2021 Euless killings of three persons.
Thornburg will either be executed or sentenced to life in prison without the chance of release by the same Tarrant County jury that found him guilty.
The Punishment Phase
Early on Wednesday morning, the final witness to testify during the punishment phase took the stand. The prosecution’s closing arguments followed the witness testimony.
What did Jason Thornburg do?
Thornburg, Jason
Three persons were killed by Thornburg in September 2021: Maricruz Reyes-Mathis, 33; Lauren Phillips, 34; and David Lueras, 42. Then, at an Eulessmotel, he disassembled their bodies and kept them beneath his bed. Then, inside a Fort Worth dump, he burned the bodies.
During the trial’s guilt-innocence phase, Thornburg told investigators that he was being asked to “commit sacrifices” and even ate the heart and other body parts of victims.
In Fort Worth, the mutilated remains of a man and two women were discovered in a smoldering dumpster.
Thornburg’s lawyers have maintained that he suffered from a serious mental illness and was mad at the time of the 2021 killings.
Death Penalty Decision
A Euless man found guilty of killing three people, dismembering them, and setting their remains on fire must now be decided by a Tarrant County jury if he will be executed. He described the murders to the police as “sacrifices.”
The jury will have to determine if Thornburg poses a threat in the future, according to attorney Russell Wilson, who is not involved in the case.
“If you were either medicated or kept in an area for a person who suffers from mental problems, then you would argue that person is not a future danger because they would be confined to prison for the rest of their life,” he stated.
Possible Previous Murders
Thornburg allegedly admitted to police that he killed his fiancée in Arizona in 2017 and his roommate in May 2021 during a suspected home explosion when he was taken into custody for the 2021 motel killings.
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This article’s information is based on previous FOX 4 coverage.
This article’s information is based on previous FOX 4 coverage.
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