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A woman who tortured and beat a mentally disabled man to death has been executed in Texas.
Suzanne Basso was convicted, along with six other defendants, of the 1998 murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso, who had a mental age of seven.
It makes Basso, 59, one of only 14 women in the US on death rowwho have been executed in nearly four decades.
None of the other people convicted of his murderface the death penalty.
Basso, described as the group's ringleader, was handed a lethal injection and officially declared dead 11 minutes later in the Texas State Penitentiary near Houston.
According to reports, she appeared to start crying before smiling at friends in the gallery as the injection was administered.
Basso was sentenced to death for promising to marry Lusso, 59, before killing him in an attempt to collect on his life insurance policy.
His battered body was found in a ditchwashed with bleach and with multiple cuts, bruises and cigarette burns.
Nearly 1,400 men have been put to death since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Suzanne Basso was convicted, along with six other defendants, of the 1998 murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso, who had a mental age of seven.
It makes Basso, 59, one of only 14 women in the US on death rowwho have been executed in nearly four decades.
None of the other people convicted of his murderface the death penalty.
Basso, described as the group's ringleader, was handed a lethal injection and officially declared dead 11 minutes later in the Texas State Penitentiary near Houston.
According to reports, she appeared to start crying before smiling at friends in the gallery as the injection was administered.
Basso was sentenced to death for promising to marry Lusso, 59, before killing him in an attempt to collect on his life insurance policy.
His battered body was found in a ditchwashed with bleach and with multiple cuts, bruises and cigarette burns.
Nearly 1,400 men have been put to death since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.