SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of a Eugene woman who tortured and killed her 15-year-old daughter.
Angela McAnulty pleaded guilty to aggravated murder on the day her trial was set to begin in 2011. She's the only woman on Oregon's death row.
The high court said a Lane County trial judge should have granted a motion to suppress some statements McAnulty made to investigators after invoking her right to remain silent.
But the justices decided the admission of those statements during the penalty phase was a "harmless error," and upheld the conviction and sentence.
Since Oregon voters in 1984 reinstated capital punishment, just two inmates have died via lethal injection - one in 1996, the other a year later.
Gov. John Kitzhaber has placed a moratorium on executions during his time in office.
