The 35-year-old North Carolina man was sentenced to die for the horrific rape, torture and murder of his 15-year-old daughter, Zaria, in 2019, the Union County District. Joshua Burgess, 35, strangled his daughter, Zaria Burgess, and cut her throat after putting her through hours of torture when she had gone to visit him at their house in Monroe,.

Zaria Burgess
Joshua Lee Burgess, 35, killed Zaria, 15, in 2019, after 'psychologically and sexually torturing her for 22 hours'. The killer from Monroe was given the sentence after three hours of.