Posted on 10/20/2026 6:48:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
* Idaho prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Andrea Shaw, who faces first-degree murder charges in the May 2025 suffocations of her twin toddlers.
* Idaho’s primary execution method is now firing squad under a July 2026 state law.
* Shaw has pleaded not guilty, denying the charges and alleging her children became severely ill and died following a “post-immunization reaction” from routine vaccinations received days earlier.
*Shaw’s attorney called the capital punishment filing “outrageous,” noting that core prosecution evidence remains unreleased while grand jury indictments and coroner reports are sealed.
* Children’s Health Defense (CHD) outside counsel Rick Jaffe joined the defense team last week.
(Children’s Health Defense)—Idaho prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Andrea Shaw, a young mother charged with murdering her twin toddlers, dramatically raising the stakes in a criminal case that has drawn national attention.
In a notice filed late last week in Idaho’s Third Judicial District Court, Payette County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ryon Sirucek identified four statutory aggravating factors that prosecutors intend to use to justify capital punishment if Shaw is convicted of first-degree murder.
Under a law that took effect in July 2026, firing squads are Idaho’s primary method of execution. The legislation followed a botched 2024 attempt to execute a 73-year-old man by lethal injection.
Prosecutors must prove at least one statutory aggravating circumstance before Shaw can be considered eligible for the death penalty. If Shaw is convicted, a jury would determine whether those circumstances exist.
According to the filing, prosecutors identified four aggravating circumstances: that Shaw allegedly committed two murders at the same time; that the murders were “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity”; that she exhibited “utter disregard for human life”; and that her conduct demonstrates a propensity to commit murder that would make her a continuing threat to society.
Shaw was indicted by a grand jury and arrested on June 30 for allegedly deliberately suffocating her twins, who died on May 1, 2025. Prosecutors allege Shaw killed the children while they were sharing a bed. Her trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 11, 2027.
Shaw, who pleaded not guilty, has consistently denied the allegations. She suggested that her twins’ deaths may have been caused by the vaccines they received at a routine doctor’s appointment just over a week before they died.
According to court documents filed by her defense, Shaw took the twins to the emergency room on April 24, 2025, the day after they received routine vaccinations, because they were lethargic and their lips had turned blue.
The treating emergency room physician diagnosed both children with a “post-immunization reaction,” the filing states.
The children remained ill in the days leading up to their deaths, and Shaw repeatedly sought medical advice.
Neither the police nor the prosecution have publicly outlined the evidence they believe supports their claim that Shaw deliberately killed her toddlers. The grand jury indictment is sealed and not publicly available, and the coroner reports have not been released.
Shaw’s bail was initially set at $2 million. A district judge in Payette County, Idaho, later revoked the bail, which is discretionary in capital cases.
Commenting on the prosecution’s claims, Mary Holland, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) CEO, said:
“There’s no basis that we are aware of that would suggest that she is of any threat to society, nor do we think that there’s any basis to assert that she murdered her children as she has claimed. We believe strongly that she is not guilty.”
Shaw’s attorney Joseph Filicetti called the prosecution’s intent to seek the death penalty “outrageous.” He told The Defender, “There’s no chance that a jury is going to find this case beyond a reasonable doubt, so I don’t think that [the death penalty] will even come into play in this case.”
Meanwhile, Rick Jaffe, outside counsel for CHD, joined Shaw’s legal defense team last week as co-counsel.
Jaffe is lead attorney for a lawsuit CHD filed earlier this year accusing the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) of running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud American families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule.
Shaw is lead plaintiff in CHD’s lawsuit against the AAP.
WOW
Gotta sacrifice the mom to save Pfizer.
Suspicious source.
Munchausen mommy not picked up on by healthcare providers or corrupt prosecutor? Both possible in today’s America.
She left a paper trail.
If she was plotting their murder, why did Shaw took the twins to the emergency room the
day after they were vaccinated, because they were lethargic and their lips had turned blue?
“She suggested that her twins’ deaths may have been caused by the vaccines..”
Must have been the Pillow Vaccine.
Is she another Clancy or being railroaded to protect the “jab science”?
According to court documents filed by her defense, Shaw took the twins to the emergency room on April 24, 2025, the day after they received routine vaccinations, because they were lethargic and their lips had turned blue.The treating emergency room physician diagnosed both children with a “post-immunization reaction,” the filing states.
The children remained ill in the days leading up to their deaths, and Shaw repeatedly sought medical advice.
On the other side:
Neither the police nor the prosecution have publicly outlined the evidence they believe supports their claim that Shaw deliberately killed her toddlers. The grand jury indictment is sealed and not publicly available, and the coroner reports have not been released.
What are they hiding?
I’ve never heard of a sealed indictment AFTER the person is arrested AND CHARGED...............
Neither have I ...
Trial should be interesting. Hope the judge deserves the title “Your Honour” ...
Good question.
The indictment is ‘sealed’ even though they have arrested and charged her... I find that strange.........
The Century of Evidence Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Snip.....In addition to causing death, the DPT vaccine frequently caused brain injuries. As the media had not yet been bought out by the pharmaceutical industry (due to a 1997 FTC decision legalizing pharmaceutical television advertisements), programs critical of vaccination would occasionally air such as a 1982 one highlighting the profound disability being caused by the DPT vaccine.
Many parents with DPT injured children saw this program, called NBC and then were connected by NBC, forming “Dissatisfied Parents Together” one of the original vaccine safety groups, and in 1985, DPT, A Shot in the Dark, was published.
DPT, A Shot in the Dark highlighted that:
•As early as 1933, there were published reports of infant deaths shortly after DPT shots, including some where autopsies attributed the deaths to vaccination.
•Simultaneous identical twin deaths are an extraordinarily rare event and are hence considered a gold standard for establishing causality, and in 1946, two twins died (on their backs) within 24 hours of their second DPT vaccine— something also shown in 1987, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2013 case reports.
•Researchers like Dr. William Torch (who analyzed 72 sequential SIDS cases and then over 200) showed that these deaths clustered shortly after vaccination—something which could not be explained by chance. •The FDA’s pertussis vaccine specialist, Charles Manclark had stated in 1976 that: Pertussis vaccine is one of the more troublesome products to produce and assay. As an example, the pertussis vaccine has one of the highest failure rates of all products submitted to the Bureau of Biologics for testing and release. Approximately 15-20 percent of all lots that pass the manufacturer’s tests fail to pass the Bureau’s tests. •In 1978–79, eleven infants in Tennessee died within eight days of receiving a DPT vaccine; nine had been vaccinated with the same lot—Wyeth #64201—and five (four from that lot) died within 24 hours. Statistical analysis showed that such a clustering of deaths would occur by chance only 3% of the time; later estimates put the probability even lower—between 0.2% and 0.5%.
In June, CDC Director Dr. William Foege told the Surgeon General that while a causal link to those deaths couldn’t be confirmed, it also couldn’t be ruled out. Three weeks later, FDA official Harry Meyer cited Foege’s memo to reject Wyeth’s request to list SIDS-related risk factors as contraindications for the DPT vaccine, stating there was no medical basis or evidence that such labeling would prevent SIDS.
•Following this, in 1979 Wyeth’s senior leadership published a memo which stated future DPT lots needed to be distributed across the country (rather than sent to one place) so a repeat of the 1978-1979 incident would not occur again.
Additionally, another cluster of SIDS deaths in Fresno California led to the local newspaper conducting an investigation that revealed widespread issues with hot DPT lots, had doctors in the area provide evidence DPT was indeed causing SIDS, and disclosed that a 1978 study on the safety of the DPT vaccine was buried after researchers discovered adverse reactions within 48 hours of immunization were 5000% higher than expected.
This damning indictment of the DPT vaccine led to national vaccine safety legislation being passed in 1986 (which sadly subsequently got co-opted and became nothing but a blanket liability shield for industry) and the whole cell DTwP vaccine eventually being replaced with the safer acellular DTaP vaccine.
Note: since the DTaP vaccine costs more to produce, industry long resisted it and still gives DTwP to poorer regions like Africa....snip....(MORE AT LINK)
If she was planning to murder them to get sympathy for herself, to build a case for a lawsuit, or for whatever motive, then of course she would take them to the hospital to insure she had some documented alibi.
If she was a loving mother then she would take them out of natural concern.
That she took them doesn’t really tell us much, one way or another. The article is just sourced to the defense so does not explain why the coroner or whomever thought there was possible foul play. That evidence will have to be presented in court.
Getting the twins immunized would seem to eliminate her as an “anti vaccine freak.” But it would not eliminate a financial motive or other motive such as revenge on a spouse, if she had planned to do it even before they were vaccinated. She could have gone through the expected motions so as to not arouse suspicion.
The defense gets to say whatever they want in the press while the prosecution has to prove everything in the court room and cannot defend its charges against claims made in the press. Did the coroner find damage indicative of strangulation, or water indicative of drowning, or something suspicious like a toxin? Did the police find suspicious internet searches? Was there an ongoing divorce? Were there threatening texts or comments? The defense team sure isn’t going to mention these to a reporter, and the treporter doesn’t seem to be making an effort to answer these questions.
I admittedly skimmed this article since it resembles an earlier one. Where’s the father? He wasn’t mentioned in the first article… shouldn’t the press be pressing him sand other family members for comnent?
Innocent until proven guilty, but given her attempts to get medical care it does not seem quite right on its face.
(Note: This is very different than the Casey women who murdered her children and needs a retrial.)
We are just reading an article and I understand what you are saying. We will probably have to wait for a trial for additional facts. Were the children insured, did she text someone about hating being a mother, who knows.
We are just reading an article and I understand what you are saying. We will probably have to wait for a trial for additional facts. Were the children insured, did she text someone about hating being a mother, etc, who knows.
FU
Trust us, she’s guilty.
This kinda shit is why I refused all vaccines for both sets of twins.
My wife insisted on Polio for the eldest set.
We have known pertussis shot related issues in my family, but I do not trust the shit they are putting in us these days.
My cousin had a severe allergic reaction leading to seizures and ultimately permanent brain damage back in the 90’s and I swelled up like a balloon in 96 immediately after.
Cannot trust the food industry to not use carcinogenic materials in their food to save a few pennies, let alone the pharmaceutical that cannot make money unless you are in need of their toxins.
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