Notorious Death Row Inmates: Wendi Adriano During the early morning hours of October 8, 2000, Wendi Andriano bludgeoned her 33 year-old husband Joe to death with a bar stool and stabbed him in the neck with a 13-inch knife in the couples Ahwatukee, Arizona apartment. His autopsy revealed that he had sustained 23 blows to the skull, and traces of sodium azide were also found in his system. Approximately one hour before Joes murder, his wife Wendi had called 911 at the behest of a co-worker, claiming that her terminally ill husband was dying. When paramedics arrived however, Wendi turned them away, stating that Joe had a do-not-resuscitate order, and that his wish was to die. Paramedics left the scene. One hour later, Wendi called 911 again, reporting that she had stabbed and beaten her husband to death in self-defense. She also made claims that her husband was physically and psychologically abusive toward her. However, being that Joe was weak from chemotherapy and the sodium azide poisoning, he was unable to defend himself. Wendi was charged with murder. On November 18, 2004, Wendis jury found her guilty of first-degree murder. A month later came her sentencing. Due to the heinousness, cruelty, and depravity of the crime, and because the crime was financially motivated, she was sentenced to death by lethal injection on December 22, 2004. As of October 2013 Wendi Andriano is one of only two women on Arizonas death row
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:15:37 +0000
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