‘We are in hell’: The lockdown limbo Arizona’s 3 women on death row faced this month

By: Michael Kiefer

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: July 24, 2026

Words: 3,594

Last Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago

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There are three women on Arizona’s death row, and they got there the usual way.

Wendi Andriano beat her terminally ill husband to death.

Shawna Forde formed an anti-immigrant militia, then staged a home invasion that left a man and his nine-year-old daughter dead.

Sammantha Uriarte and her husband, John Allen, locked a 10-year-old cousin in a plastic box as discipline, then left her to literally stew in the box overnight in a summertime-hot …

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