A Tarrant County jury sentences a man to death for killing a mother of two
A 28-year-old man was sentenced to death Monday by a Tarrant County jury for the murder of a 26-year-old mother of two, according to WFAA.
Marissa Grimes, 26, was reported missing in February 2022 by her family and was discovered dead days later in a crawl space under the rental home of Valerian O’Steen, 28.
In 2024, six people were sentenced to death in Texas, three of whom came from Tarrant County, according to a report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Texas, along with eight other states, carried out the most executions that year…