Marissa Devault qualifies for execution in hammer killing

PHOENIX (AP) -- Jurors decided on Monday that an Arizona woman convicted of killing her husband with a hammer is eligible for the death penalty after prosecutors argued that she carried out the brutal killing so she could collect life-insurance money.

The decision clears the way for jurors to now consider whether they will imprison Marissa Suzanne Devault (dev-WAH') for life or sentence her to death for the fatal beating of Dale Harrell in 2009.

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