A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death for the brutal rape and murder of his own teenage daughter. A Union County jury sentenced Joshua Lee Burgess, 35, to death Friday after he was convicted of murder and other charges for killing his 15-year-old daughter Zaria in 2019, according to the Union County District Attorney’s Office. Burgess slit Zaria’s throat on Aug. 18, 2019 after sexually and psychologically torturing her for 22 hours at his home in Monroe.
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