MIAMI -- A Florida man was sentenced to death for bludgeoning his wife to death with the claw end of a hammer because she nagged him to cuddle after ***.
Christopher Offord pleaded guilty to murdering his wife, saying he was fed up with her always wanting to cuddle, and that "she kept running her mouth too much."
"The defendant stuck his wife approximately 70 blows after spending a happy interlude with her," Judge Dedee Costello said when she sentenced Offord. "Her desire to cuddle after *** does not justify the extremely violent, brutal response of the defendant."
The judge recounted in gruesome details the events of the night of July 31, 2004 that led to the death of Offord's wife Dana Noser.
"He left the bedroom after having *** with her, went into the kitchen and picked up a knife, some duct tape and a pair of scissors. He was annoyed at her attempt to 'cuddle' after *** and planned to kill her with the knife after muffling her expected screams with the tape.
"When the knife bent, Ms. Noser lived 15 to 20 minutes and her face was basically unrecognizable from the hammer blows. She continued to moan for a period of time and the defendant continued to beat on her in an attempt to 'take off her face'," the judge said.



