Texas set for first execution of African-American woman
A Dec. 1 execution date has been set for a Houston woman who would be the first African-American woman put to death since Texas resumed capital punishment in 1982.Frances Elaine Newton, now 39, was sentenced to die for killing her husband and two children on April 7, 1987. She was arrested two weeks later when she attempted to collect on recently purchased life-insurance policies.Newton shot Adrian Newton, 23; Alton Newton, 7; and 21-month-old Farah Elaine Newton with a .25-caliber pistol she had borrowed from her boyfriend. [
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