Angela McAnulty, now 51, pleaded guilty and was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples. The emaciated girl was found unconscious in a bathtub in 2009 and died later that night. McAnulty was sentenced to death in one of the most notorious cases in modern Oregon history. She was the state’s only woman on death row, sentenced for torturing, starving, and killing her teen daughter. She has been resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Oregon Supreme Court affirmed McAnulty’s conviction in 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review her case. New attorneys reviewed McAnulty’s case and filed a petition in 2016 for post-conviction relief, saying her initial two lawyers inadequately represented her. In 2019, a judge decided that McAnulty’s guilty plea should be vacated and the case returned to Lane County Circuit Court. The judge ruled her attorneys did not use reasonable skill and judgment in ...