Wendi Adriano was convicted in the October 2000 killing of her terminally ill husband Joseph Adriano, an apartment manager in Ahwatukee, Ariz. She allegedly tried to poison him by putting pesticide in his soup.
When he didn't immediately die, she allegedly struck him 23 times with a barstool and stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife.
The case was prosecuted by Juan Martinez, the same man who is arguing the state's case against Jodi Arias.
Martinez reportedly told jurors Adriano was hoping to cash in on a $20 million payout from a lawsuit connected to the misdiagnosis of her husband's cancer. The jury reportedly ruled she should be sentenced to death after finding the murder was committed in an "especially cruel" manner.
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