A serial child abuser who punched and threw his infant daughter against a wall in September 1991, leaving her severely disabled for the rest of her 22 years of life, pled guilty to second-degree murder in Rutherford County, Tennessee on Friday.
Anthony Shannon Lane, 44, had been serving his second child abuse conviction when he was given a rare “delayed death” first-degree murder charge in 2014 for the death of Amanda Michelle Lane-Woodall. An autopsy confirmed her death was a homicide caused by her traumatic brain injuries. This week Lane’s defense team proposed a second-degree murder plea with 20 years in prison and no trial.
