{"id":362538,"date":"2026-08-04T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:54:10","slug":"convicted-killer-demorris-hunter-sentenced-to-death-for-2002-orlando-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/362538\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted killer DeMorris Hunter sentenced to death for 2002 Orlando murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla.  \u2013 The man convicted of killing his neighbor more than two decades ago was sentenced to death in an Orange County courtroom Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A unanimous Orange County jury earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/13\/death-penalty-phase-begins-in-orlando-for-convicted-killer-demorris-hunter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/13\/death-penalty-phase-begins-in-orlando-for-convicted-killer-demorris-hunter\/\">recommended the death penalty for DeMorris Hunter<\/a>, and a judge on Tuesday agreed with that recommendation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Hunter, 59, strangled Theresa Green following a small gathering at her College Park home in 2002, then placed her body in the trunk of her car and left the vehicle in a Sanford parking lot, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The two were neighbors at the time of the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Left: DeMorris Hunter, Right: Theresa Green (Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Hunter was already serving a 110-year prison sentence in California for the murder of another woman in 2005 when he was extradited to Florida in 2015 following his indictment in Green\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The case faced several setbacks, including delays tied to COVID-19 and a heart attack Hunter suffered. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 The man convicted of killing his neighbor more than two decades ago was sentenced to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[96684,1335,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-362538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-demorris-hunter","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}