05-19-2011, 09:58 AM
BREVARD COUNTY --
News 13
A Brevard County convicted killer has become the third woman on Florida's death row.
Margaret Allen, 45, was convicted last September of killing and torturing the housekeeper in 2005 who accused her of stealing $2,000. She was sentenced to death Thursday morning.
She along with Quinton Allen, her nephew, are accused of beating and strangling Wenda Wright with a belt, then burying the body in a shallow grave in the northern part of the county.
Quinton testified against his aunt and through a plea deal will serve 15 years behind bars.
In earlier testimony, a medical examiner described the nearly dozen blows to Wright's face and body, and the belt tightened so severely around her neck she lost consciousness.
The defense tried to spare Allen from the death penalty. They brought a neurologist in to testify claiming she suffers from brain damage due to previous assaults in her past and because of her condition could not plan a murder scheme.
Two other women are currently on death row in the state of Florida.
Tiffany Cole, convicted in 2008 in Duval County of killing a Jacksonville couple and burying them alive. And Emilia Carr was just convicted in February in Marion County for kidnapping and murder then burying the victim in a shallow grave.
smaller pic at bottom is victim. they poured bleach down her throat too.
News 13
A Brevard County convicted killer has become the third woman on Florida's death row.
Margaret Allen, 45, was convicted last September of killing and torturing the housekeeper in 2005 who accused her of stealing $2,000. She was sentenced to death Thursday morning.
She along with Quinton Allen, her nephew, are accused of beating and strangling Wenda Wright with a belt, then burying the body in a shallow grave in the northern part of the county.
Quinton testified against his aunt and through a plea deal will serve 15 years behind bars.
In earlier testimony, a medical examiner described the nearly dozen blows to Wright's face and body, and the belt tightened so severely around her neck she lost consciousness.
The defense tried to spare Allen from the death penalty. They brought a neurologist in to testify claiming she suffers from brain damage due to previous assaults in her past and because of her condition could not plan a murder scheme.
Two other women are currently on death row in the state of Florida.
Tiffany Cole, convicted in 2008 in Duval County of killing a Jacksonville couple and burying them alive. And Emilia Carr was just convicted in February in Marion County for kidnapping and murder then burying the victim in a shallow grave.
smaller pic at bottom is victim. they poured bleach down her throat too.