By Associated Press Reporter A federal jury sentenced an ex-Marine to death on Thursday for murdering a fellow service member in 2009, one among a series of violent, sexually motivated attacks he committed over the years. Jorge Torrez of Zion, Ill., is the first person since 2007 to be sentenced to death at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. After Torrez, 25, was found guilty earlier this month of Navy Petty Officer Amanda Snell's murder, Torrez ordered his lawyers not to put on any defense or question the government's case during the trial's sentencing phase. Ex-Marine Jorge Torrez was sentenced to death on Thursday for murdering fellow service member Amanda Snell
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Jorge Torrez, 25, has been sentenced to death for the murder of US Navy sailor Amanda Snell
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When he was 16 he murdering Laura Hobbs, 8, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, in Illinois
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Jerry Hobbs, the father of Laura, was wrongly convicted of their murders in 2005
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Torrez reportedly laughed when he was told the victim's father had been found guilty
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