TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona jury will resume deliberations Tuesday on whether the leader of an anti-illegal-immigrant group convicted in a deadly 2009 home invasion robbery should get the death penalty.
The Arizona Daily Star says Pima County Superior Court jurors went home Friday without deciding if Shawna Forde should become the third woman on Arizona’s death row.
The 43-year-old Forde was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and other charges in the May 2009 home invasion in Arivaca (ayr-uh-VAH’-kuh), a desert community about 10 miles north of Mexico. Killed in the robbery were a 29-year-old man and his 9-year-old daughter.
Prosecutors say Forde planned the attack to help fund the anti-immigrant operations of the Minutemen American Defense, a small border watch group. Before coming to Arizona, Forde lived in Everett, Wash.