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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38ad520aa1703a1a3a1d5eedbeda0c9e wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#251c1c;font-size:14px"><strong>Sean Finnegan had been earlier found guilty of the 2019 murder of Jennifer Paxton, when he was sentenced to die by lethal injection Wednesday </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd1332a433c99a0ce46618acc3c02bfb wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#251c1c;font-size:14px"><strong>Finnegan, 56, was shaking, and fussed with his long hair, but said nothing as the sentence was handed down by the judge</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b1b3ca8f49637bf99de61eb15eeb514 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#251c1c;font-size:14px"><strong>Finnegan killed Jennifer Paxton, 36, strangling her with a string over an extended period of time, taking breaks, and pausing to smoke, his accomplice, Rebecca Dishman, revealed</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8686de8a76be89cafc60039f57ae0e37 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#251c1c;font-size:14px"><strong>He then kept Paxton&#8217;s body was kept in a freezer in his bedroom for approximately eight months after he killed her </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-501ef22d7af595a7aec27893a0bae7e2 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#251c1c;font-size:14px"><strong>He viewed her corpse for sexual pleasure</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd6557aedc3e47d4491b3acce95bc069 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#251c1c;font-size:14px"><strong>The jury on Monday, the jury found Finnegan guilty of first-degree felony murder in Paxton&#8217;s death </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5afb271e79efba07cf05d5d5d2339dcc wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#251c1c;font-size:14px"><strong>He was also convicted of criminally negligent homicide, multiple counts aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated rape, aggravated rape, two counts conspiracy, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sean Finnegan, [photo], became physically distraught in the courtroom on Wednesday, as he learned his he was being sentenced to death for his sickening murder and torture of a homeless woman in 2019 </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A Tennessee man convicted for murder became physically distraught as he learned his he was being sentenced to death for his sickening murder and torture of a homeless woman. <br>Sean S. Finnegan, 56, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, had been found guilty of the 2019 murder of 36-year-old Jennifer Paxton when he stood to learn his punishment in the courtroom on Wednesday. <br>As the judge announced his sentence of death by lethal injection, the color drained from his face. <br>The convicted killer began to shake and fussed with his long, greasy grey hair, but said nothing as the sentence was handed down. </p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">After nearly 12 hours of deliberation, a jury in Oak Ridge found Finnegan guilty on Monday of first-degree felony murder in Paxton&#8217;s death. <br>He was also found guilty on 10 other counts, including criminally negligent homicide, multiple aggravated kidnapping charges, attempted aggravated rape, aggravated rape, two conspiracy charges, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. <br>He was found not guilty on two charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder and aggravated rape with bodily injury. <br>Finnegan at one point, wiped away tears as witnesses testified about the kidnapping and murder of Paxton whose frozen body was found under his bed.<br>Finnegan&#8217;s partner, 26-year-old Rebecca Dishman, told officers that Finnegan killed Jennifer Paxton , strangling her with a string over an extended period of time, taking breaks, and pausing to smoke. <br>Finnegan then Paxton&#8217;s body was kept in a freezer in his bedroom for approximately eight months after he killed her. <br>He would view her corpse for sexual pleasure, Dishman told police. Finnegan would later move the body to a hiding place under his bed before police arrived to execute a search warrant in early August 2020.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Finnegan killed Jennifer Paxton [photo], 36, by strangling her with a string over an extended period of time, taking breaks, and pausing to smoke. </strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Paxton was the ideal victim for Finnegan, prosecutor Kevin Allen told jurors Friday. <br>She was a homeless drug addict who sold her body to make money.<br>Investigators believe Paxton was strangled to death in December 2019. Finnegan&#8217;s partner, 26-year-old Rebecca Dishman, told officers that Finnegan killed Paxton, strangling her with a string over an extended period of time, taking breaks, and pausing to smoke.<br>By the summer of 2020, Dishman wanted to get away from the apartment in Oak Ridge and Finnegan, according to testimony. <br>As she fled Aug. 5, 2020, with a neighbor, she confided about Paxton in the freezer, leading to a call to the authorities.<br>Dishman already pled guilty to murder in September 2023. <br>She was sentenced to Life in Prison for murder, with an additional 50 years, to be served in entirety, on two counts of Rape of a Child. As a condition of the plea, Dishman was required to cooperate with the State of Tennessee in its death penalty case against her co-defendant Sean S. Finnegan</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Finnegan&#8217;s accomplice, Rebecca E. Dishman, [photo], exposed the crime and assisted in prosecuting her partner. She pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to Life in Prison for murder, plus an additional 50 years, to be served in entirety, on two Rape of a Child charges</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Her first person recount of the crime apparently helped with the swift conviction of the killer.<br>On Wednesday the judge announced Finnegan&#8217;s sentence, stating that the convict would be transferred to the state penitentiary in Nashville for execution by lethal injection.<br>Following the verdict, Paxton&#8217;s family was seen crying and embracing each other in the courtroom. Finnegan shook his attorney&#8217;s hands, thanking them for their work on the case, after everyone had been dismissed.<br>&#8216;Sean Finnegan will never be free again,&#8217; defense attorney Forrest Wallace told Anderson County jurors on August 20 at the start of his sentencing hearing. He noted that the minimum sentence for first-degree murder was 51 years, and Finnegan was already 56. &#8216;Do the math,&#8217; he said.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sicko: After Finnegan, [photo], killed Paxton, he then kept her body in a freezer for 8 months and viewed it for sexual pleasure</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Paxton&#8217;s friends and family embrace each other after the verdict was read, Monday</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Prosecutor Kevin Allen countered, advocating for the death penalty. &#8216;Sean Finnegan must be given the same amount of mercy they, [Finnegan and Rebecca Dishman], gave Jennifer Paxton,&#8217; he said.<br>The defendant remained emotionless throughout the case until the verdict was announced, only stirring when his brother&#8217;s ex-wife, Roxanne Mundy, testifying on his behalf, detailed Finnegan&#8217;s abusive childhood, where he was a victim of physical and sexual violence.<br></p>

Death sentence stuns convicted killer in Tennessee courtroom – Blood drains from Sean Finnegan’s face as judge pronounces ‘death by lethal injection’
