Suzanne Basso, executed last night in Texas, is only the 14th woman executed since 1976. Does that mean anything?

Feb 06, 2014

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Suzanne Basso was executed last night in Texas -- by lethal injection, but not by the trial version of lethal injection -- thus becoming the 14th woman executed since 1976, and only the fourth since 2002 (about 12 years), three of those having happened in Texas (the state does itself no fav…

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