"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."

Officials with the Maricopa County Attorney's office say a man who was found guilty in connection with the murder of a high school freshman over a decade ago will be put to death. Per a statement released on Jan.

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