Wendi Andriano, convicted of killing her terminally ill husband, was sentenced to death

Wendi Andriano, convicted of killing her terminally ill husband, was sentenced to death in a Superior Court in Mesa. Andriano is only the 2nd woman to be sentenced to death in Arizona since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. She was convicted last month of 1st-degree murder in the October 8th, 2000, death of her husband. Joe Andriano was struck in the head at least 23 times and stabbed in the neck. Investigators also found a pesticide in his stomach.