identical twin sisters have been sentenced to 30 years in jail after admitting to the brutal murder of their mother four years ago jasmiyah and tasmiyah whitehead were 16 when they stabbed their mother, jarmecca whitehead, 34, so violently that they severed her spinal cord she also suffered stab wounds to her lungs, jugular and the back of her neck the twins turned on their mother after getting into an argument on january 13, 2010, at their home in conyers, georgia, after getting up late for school 11alive said the 21 year old sisters recounted chilling details of the knife attack in recent taped confessions, revealing that their mother told her daughters she hated them as she bled to death in the bathtub tasimyah whitehead (pictured left) and identical twin sister jasmiyah were sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to the brutal murder of their murder in january 2010  the twins turned on their mother after getting into an argument on january 13, 2010, at their home in conyers, georgia, after getting up late for school  'my state of mind at the time was defend yourself it wasn't like a fight on the street, it was more like a fight until somebody dies,' said jasmiyah during the interview the twins told prosecutors they had gotten into a verbal argument with their mother that morning who was holding a pot at the time to threaten them as the twins tried to take the pot away from their mother, the fight became  violent during her filmed statement, jasmiyah said: 'we all yelling, we all mad somehow, someway i don't know where she got it from, i don't even remember a knife block but she has a knife' jasmiyah admitted she broke a vase over her mother's head while tasmiyah grabbed the pot and hit her with it in the chaos, the knife ended up being held by tasmiyah who stabbed her mother as her twin strangled her with a ribbon jasmiyah then took the knife and continued to stab her the twins carried their injured mother to the bathtub which was filled with water the twins  told police that they discovered the blood soaked crime scene when they came home from school in january 2010  jarmecca whitehead, 34, (left) had her spinal cord severed in the brutal attack by her two then 16 year old daughters at their home  as she lay dying, her daughters watched and the mother told them she hated them,11alive reported the twins watched their mother sink below the surface and knew that she was dead, they said in statements after the murder, the girls collected their mom's purse and phone along with the pot and knife in a plastic bag, and then went to school it wasn't until later that day that the girls summoned a rockdale county sheriff's deputy who was driving by their home he found the victim submerged in the bathtub the officer said at the time that he could 'smell the blood' in the air at the home the teens lied and said they found their mother dead police initially treated them as victims but found that the 16 year olds had cuts and bite marks, implicating their involvement in a vicious fight both girls originally pleaded not guilty when they were arrested and charged four months later the twins both expressed regret that they had not called the police and helped their injured mother the twins initially told the police that someone had killed their mother until their bodies were discovered wit cuts and bite marks  the family had a violent history prior before the fight which escalated to murder their mother had accused her daughters of smoking pot and being sexually active while they in turn had accused her of using illegal drugs the twins got in a fight with their mother  in 2008 and were forced by a juvenile court to live with their great grandmother, della frasier they moved back with their mother a week before the murder the twins had told a counselor that if forced to go back to their mother's home they would kill her, according to a prosecutor last year jarmecca whitehead's mother , lydia whitehead, told the court in 2014 that she was heartbroken over her daughter's death but that she loves and forgave the twins 'unfortunately, my grandchildren never learned right from wrong … and that’s why we are here,' she said 'they should be in college, not sitting somewhere in jail' the mother with her identical twin daughters when they were children the family had already had violent episodes and the girls sent to juvenile court prior to the murder 
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jasmiyah and tasimyah whitehead were 16 when they stabbed their mother, jarmecca, 34, so violently that they severed her spinal cord . the twins turned on their mother after getting into an argument on january 13, 2010, at their home in conyers, georgia before school . they dragged her injured body to the bathtub and watched her die, before leaving her submerged and going to school 