Facts of the Crime:
Emmett Taylor III was sentenced to death for the 2007 murder of his fiancee days before they were to be wed. Taylor was convicted in the bludgeoning death of Stephanie V. Mumford, 44, of Millsboro. The same jury recommended the death penalty for Taylor with an 11-1 vote. Mumford's body was found the night of August 14, 2007, in the condominium she shared with Taylor at Fairfield at Long Neck, east of Millsboro. Mumford's family got worried when the couple didn't show up for their wedding rehearsal and began to search for her. Prosecutor Paula Ryan said Mumford was savagely beaten -- including being pushed down stairs and then later being dragged back up them. "There was the use of a frying pan to strike her," Ryan said. "She was assaulted throughout the town house."
Taylor was sentenced to death on March 12, 2010.
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