Ohio registered sex offender sentenced to death for killing 2 teen girls

Man sentenced to death for killing 2 Ohio teens

CINCINNATI — An Ohio registered sex offender who described himself as “evil” has been sentenced to death in the slayings of two teenage girls.

Forty-one-year-old Anthony Kirkland of Cincinnati was sentenced Wednesday after a jury earlier this month convicted him of aggravated murder, attempted rape and other charges in the deaths of 13-year-old Esme Kenney and 14-year-old Casonya Crawford, both Cincinnati teenagers.

Kirkland’s attorneys offered no defense during the trial, focusing instead on trying to convince jurors to spare his life. Kirkland told jurors he was “evil” and “a monster.” As part of their case, prosecutors introduced details about his guilty pleas to the murders of two other females.