A woman convicted of torturing and killing a mentally impaired man she had promised to marry is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday evening.
Suzanne Basso, 59, is slated for lethal injection at 6 p.m. CT. She would only be the 14th woman executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to be reinstated in 1976; meanwhile, nearly 1,400 men have been executed since then.
Basso received a death sentence for the 1998 killing of 59-year-old Louis “Buddy” Musso, who, according to prosecutors, was living in New Jersey when he met Basso. Musso was lured to Jacinto City, Texas, by Basso with an offer of marriage.
Musso’s bruised and battered body was later found in a ditch in Jacinto City, east of Houston. It had been bleached and scrubbed with a wire brush. Prosecutors said Basso had made herself the beneficiary of the man’s insurance policies as well as took over his Social Security benefits after she brought him to Texas from New Jersey.
An autopsy found Musso had numerous broken bones and that his back was covered with cigarette burns.
Texas, which has the most death penalty sentences carried out in the nation, has executed four women and 505 men, according to the Associated Press.
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