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Marks asked the jury to sentence him to death and admitted to lying, saying he dragged Jenna Scott and Michael Swearingin's bodies to a hole he dug in Oklahoma.

MMA fighter Cedric Marks was sentenced Friday to death for killing his ex-girlfriend Jenna Scott and her male friend Michael Swearingin in 2019.

After a week-long punishment phase, a jury has Cedric Marks the death penalty on Friday, June 9.

A Bell County jury on Friday, June 9, sentenced convicted killer Cedric Marks to death.

Marks told the jury he is ready for them to hear the good, bad and ugly after being convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Jenna Scott and Michael Swearingin.

Cedric Joseph Marks, 45, of Belton and Kellee Kristine Sorensen, 34, of Lynden, Washington have been charged with second-degree murder in a 2009 abduction

Cedric Marks, convicted in the murders of his ex-girlfriend and her friend, on Wednesday called himself to the stand to testify in his own defense

The punishment phase continued Thursday for Cedric Marks, an MMA fighter who was recently found guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend Jenna Scott and her male friend Michael Swearingin in 2019.

Marks, who was found guilty of the murder of Jenna Scott and Michael Swearingin, tried to say his ex-girlfriend, Maya Maxwell, killed them.

The state rested its case Tuesday. The convicted killer, representing himself in court, will cross-examine witnesses on Wednesday.