"I want to thank you guys," Madrid told the jurors after they announced their sentence. "I know it probably wasn't easy on you guys."

Per a statement released on Jan. 16, 42-year-old Alex Anthony Madrid was sentenced to death in connection with the murder of 14-year-old Claudia Lucero back in 2013. According to prosecutors, Madrid's death sentence is on top of the 91-year prison sentence he received for various charges related to the case.

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said Alex Anthony Madrid, 42, was sentenced in the murder of 14-year-old Claudia Lucero, who was a Westworld High School student.

The body of Claudia Lucero, a student of Westwood High School, was discovered in a dumpster a couple of miles from her family's residence