Brisenia Flores Update: Shawna Forde Gets Death Penalty

The woman who organized the robbery that ultimately left 9 year-old Brisenia Flores dead has been sentenced to death by an Arizona jury. She had previously been found guilty, for being the mastermind of a robbery that ultimately left Flores shot in the face and dead.

The Arizona Daily Star reports:

A Washington state resident who once bragged she was going to take her Minutemen group to the “next level” was sentenced to death Tuesday for plotting a deadly home invasion that took the life of a 9-year-old Arivaca girl and her father.

A Pima County jury deliberated four hours over two days before deciding Shawna Forde, 43, should join the other two women on Arizona’s death row.

Forde, 43, was convicted Feb. 14 of first-degree murder in the May 30, 2009, deaths of Raul Junior Flores, 29, and Brisenia Flores, 9, and of attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of Gina Gonzalez, Flores’ wife and Brisenia’s mother.

For more information check out The Arizona Daily Star’s story.

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