a woman was sentenced to death for helping her former boyfriend kill 5 people...

a woman was sentenced to death for helping her former boyfriend kill 5 people, including two children, in an attempt to thwart an investigation of the man's methamphetamine business.
Angela Johnson, 41, maintained her innocence and said she was manipulated by Dustin Honken, her ex-boyfriend, who was sentenced to death in October.
Johnson and Honken are the first people sentenced to death in Iowa in more than 40 years. Iowa does not have the death penalty. Federal prosecutors brought the case against Johnson and Honken.
U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett said last week he was bound by law to issue the sentence a jury recommended in June, but was "troubled by the lack of certainty in the record concerning the precise involvement" of Johnson in the crimes.
Prosecutors said Honken and Johnson schemed to kill 2 of Honken's former drug dealers, Greg Nicholson and Terry DeGeus, after Honken learned both men had agreed to cooperate with federal agents.
Nicholson, Lori Duncan and her daughters, ages 6 and 10, disappeared in 1993; prosecutors said Johnson had posed as a cosmetics saleswoman to gain access to Duncan's home. DeGeus disappeared months later, after telling relatives he was meeting with Johnson. The victims were tortured and shot.
Their bodies were found in 2000, after Johnson scrawled a map of the graves and unwittingly gave it to a jailhouse informant, prosecutors said.