22 November 2010 :

Forsyth Superior Court Judge Stuart Albright has sentenced Timothy Hartford, 40, white, to the death penalty into the 2008 slaying of a man inside his  home and 1 of 2 Meals-on-Wheels volunteers who was making a delivery. The death sentence was for the shooting of Anne Magness, 77, who was delivering a Meals-on-Wheels lunch to the home of Bob Denning, 64. Hartford had beaten Denning to death in his home on April 24, 2008 not long before Magness was shot. Judge Albright affirmed the jury's recommendations that Hartford be sentence in Magness' killing and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Denning's death. Hartford beat Denning to death and then shot Anne and Bill Magness, who'd come to Denning’s house together for the deliver. Anne Magness was fatally shot in the back, and her husband Bill Magness survived being shot 6 times.