Sammantha Uriarte Allen is on death row in Arizona along with her husband John Allen. According to court documents Sammantha and John Allen would put a ten year old girl into a plastic tub and closed the lid. The little girl would die from overheating. Apparently the reason for this barbaric punishment is that the little girl took a couple of ice pops without asking. When the forensic pathologist was examining the child he found signs of old injuries and police would uncover a long series of abuses that was inflicted on the child. The two would be convicted of child abuse and murder and sentenced to death
Sammantha Uriarte Allen 2021 Information
| Last Name First Name Middle Initial URIARTE SAMMANTHA E |
| Gender Height (inches)Weigh tHair Color FEMALE 63 150 BLOND |
| Eye ColorEthnic Origin Custody Class Admission GREEN CAUCASIAN Close/Moderate 08/07/2017 |
| Projected Eligible Release Date Prison Release DateRelease Type Death SENTENCE EXPIRATION |
| Most Recent Location As of Date Complex Unit Last Movement Status PERRYVILLEAS PC-PV LUMLEY UNIT 08/25/2021 ACTIVE |
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In the end, the jurors felt they had no choice but to sentence Sammantha Allen to death for the brutal 2011 murder of her 10-year-old cousin, Ame Deal.
Sammantha Uriarte Allen had been on trial in Maricopa County Superior Court since May, one of four family members charged with disciplining the girl by forcing her to do exercise in sweltering July heat and then locking her in a 31-inch-long footlocker overnight.
“The pictures of the victim stayed in our minds,” said juror Ann Ospeth. “I think the thing for us was the victim and all the things her life entailed.”
It demanded a death penalty, the jurors agreed.
“We were following what the law stated,” said juror Amanda Heath.
And indeed the jurors felt that Allen should be punished to the max.
They also found aggravating factors for the four underlying child-abuse counts against Allen, which allowed the judge to impose harsher sentences for those charges.
Superior Court Judge Teresa Sanders sentenced Sammantha to an additional four consecutive sentences totaling 76 years for those crimes. She was given credit for more than 2,000 days she has already spent in custody.
Sammantha was found guilty June 26. Then the jury deliberated for a week over whether there were mitigating factors that would allow Sammantha Allen to avoid the death penalty and instead be sentenced to life in prison.
They considered her age, her dysfunctional upbringing and the fact that she had no prior criminal record. But they determined the horror of the crime outweighed all of those.
Sammantha Uriarte Allen remains on death row
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A Phoenix woman was sentenced to death Monday in the killing of her 10-year-old cousin who was locked in a small plastic storage box and left to die.
Sammantha Uriarte Allen is one of just dozens of female death-row inmates in the United States.
The jury reached the verdict after Allen, 29, was convicted in June of first-degree murder and four counts of child abuse in the 2011 killing of Ame Deal, who was punished for stealing an ice pop.
Sammantha Uriarte Allen held her head in her hand and wept as the verdict was read and later cried and hugged her attorneys before she was led out of the courtroom.
“Lack of remorse was the biggest thing that played into it for us, that we didn’t see that from Sammantha throughout the whole process,” juror Anne Schaad told CBS affiliate KPHO-TV.
Allen will become the 55th woman condemned to die nationwide. There are only two other women on death row in Arizona, which is among the states struggling to buy execution drugs after pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products in lethal injections.
In comparison, nearly 2,800 men are facing executions in the U.S., according to an April report by the NAACP that’s used by the Death Penalty Information Center.
In Allen’s case, authorities said she and her husband are responsible for making Ame get into the box, where she was left and found dead six or seven hours later.
The girl’s death was the culmination of a history of abuse that a handful of relatives heaped on her, authorities say.
Ame was forced to eat dog feces, crush aluminum cans barefoot, consume hot sauce and get in the storage box on other occasions. She also was kicked in the face, beaten with a wooden paddle and forcibly dunked after being thrown in a cold swimming pool, investigators said.
Adults at the home originally claimed Ame hid during a late-night game of hide-and-seek and wasn’t found until hours later. Three other relatives are in prison serving sentences for abusing Ame.
Allen’s husband, John Allen, 29, is scheduled to go on trial Oct. 9. He’s has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and child abuse and also faces the death penalty.
Sammantha Allen’s mother, Cynthia Stoltzmann, who also was Ame’s legal guardian, is serving a 24-year prison sentence for a child abuse conviction.
Child welfare authorities in Arizona said they didn’t receive any reports of abuse before her death. But child welfare reports from Utah, where the family lived before moving to Phoenix, listed Ame as an abused child, police said.
The verdict comes after executions in Arizona were put on hold following the 2014 death of a prisoner who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination before he died in what his attorney called a botched execution.
But the state is now able to resume executions after a lawsuit that challenged the way Arizona carries out the death penalty was settled earlier this summer. No executions are scheduled.
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Sammantha Uriarte is currently incarcerated at the ASPC Perryville, Lumley Unit the home of Arizona Death Row for Women
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Sammantha Allen was convcited of the murder of a ten year old girl