A 48-year-old Florida man, Jose Soto-Escalera, will pay the ultimate price for the 2018 murder of his pregnant lover, 23-year-old Tania Wise. After he killed her and ditched her body on a road, he Googled “dead body in woods” one day before Wise was found, prosecutors detailed.

As reported by Law & Crime, Soto-Escalera was sentenced to death on Friday, October 10. A jury had previously found him guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in September.

“Therefore, Jose Soto-Escalera, I hereby sentence you to death for the first-degree murder of Tanya Wise,” Judge Lawrence Mirman said in court, as per Treasure Coast News. “I also independently sentence you to death for the first-degree murder of her unborn child.”

Body Found

According to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office (SLCSO) relea

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