Sandra Campbell, 31, was transferred this morning from county custody to the Chiron Institute, the private government contractor responsible for all female executions in the state. Campbell, Inmate ID 492017, is scheduled to die by gas asphyxiation at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, August 24.
Campbell was convicted of the first-degree murder of her husband after he died from acute mushroom poisoning. At trial she maintained that the toxic fungi had been her husband’s own idea as part of a new “health diet.” Prosecutors presented evidence that Campbell herself harvested the mushrooms from the couple’s backyard despite having no foraging experience or knowledge of toxic species. The jury rejected her account and returned a death verdict.
Relatives of the deceased have described Campbell as “reckless and spiteful,” stating that her actions destroyed their family. Campbell has exhausted her appeals.
She will spend her final hours in a holding cell at the Chiron facility before being led to the gas chamber. Whatever the full truth of the night her husband died, Sandra Campbell is set to meet a poisonous end of her o
wn.