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Post by Californian on Feb 5, 2014 18:55:56 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, creep
Texas Woman Executed After Luring and Murdering Mentally Impaired ManAllegedly lured disabled man to Texas to marry her, then murdered him to get his insurance benefits By Charlotte Alter @charlottealterfeb. 05, 20149 Comments Update, 7:40 p.m. ET: Basso was executed Wednesday evening; she was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. CST. A Texas woman convicted of murdering a mentally impaired man after promising to marry him and taking over his Social Security benefits is set to be executed on Wednesday, which would make her the 14th woman executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Suzanne Basso, 59, was sentenced to death for torturing and killing Louis “Buddy” Musso, a mentally disabled man whose body was found lacerated, beaten, and doused with bleach in a ditch near Houston, the Associated Press reports. According to prosecutors, Basso murdered Musso after luring him to Texas with the promise of marriage, then making herself the beneficiary of his benefits. Unless the Supreme Court steps in, she will be executed by lethal injection Wednesday after a federal appeals court refused to stay the execution on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Basso had a habit of making up stories about herself. She admitted that she lied about being a triplet, working for the Governor of New York, and having a relationship with Nelson Rockefeller. She also spoke like a little girl in court, claimed she was blind, and said she was paralyzed from a jail beating. Read more: Suzanna Basso To Be Executed in Texas for Killing Louis Buddy Musso | TIME.com nation.time.com/2014/02/05/texas-murder-suzanne-basso-execution/#ixzz2sUznLyNy
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Post by Stormyweather on Feb 5, 2014 19:23:11 GMT -6
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A woman convicted of torturing and killing a mentally impaired man she lured to Texas with the promise of marriage was put to death Wednesday evening in a rare execution of a female prisoner. The lethal injection of Suzanne Basso, 59, made the New York native only the 14th woman executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. Almost 1,400 men have been put to death during that time. Before being put to death, Basso told a warden who stood near her, "No sir," when asked to make a final statement. She appeared to be holding back tears, then smiled at two friends watching through a window. She mouthed a brief word to them and nodded. As the lethal dose of pentobarbital took effect, Basso, dressed in a white prison uniform, began to snore. Her deep snoring became less audible and eventually stopped. She was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. CST, 11 minutes after the drug was administered www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2014/02/05/woman-executed-in-texas-for-1998-torture-killing
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Post by charon on Feb 6, 2014 1:36:34 GMT -6
She appeared to be holding back tears, then smiled at two friends Shame, poor thing. Well at least bawl her dark little heart out among many other friends where she's at now. Burn in hell, b!tch! Have a nice day, scumpalls.
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Post by rayozz on Feb 6, 2014 1:58:23 GMT -6
Texas stopped last meal requests but for her last meal she ate baked chicken, fish, boiled eggs, carrots, green beans and sliced bread. That sounds better than what the general population would get. Perhaps they gave her what the prison officers get from the canteen.
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Post by charon on Feb 6, 2014 4:00:04 GMT -6
Texas stopped last meal requests but for her last meal she ate baked chicken, fish, boiled eggs, carrots, green beans and sliced bread. That sounds better than what the general population would get. Perhaps they gave her what the prison officers get from the canteen. Which by itself is enough to kill you.
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Post by moonlight on Feb 6, 2014 5:30:21 GMT -6
The only wise thing she did in her entire life was to hold back tears. She will need alot of them in her new eternal permanent residence where she really belongs.
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Post by Stormyweather on Feb 6, 2014 9:26:13 GMT -6
And it's people like her that cry for themselves not caring what they do to others. I wonder if the daughter that testified against her during the punishment phase feels a sense of relief.
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Post by Tracy on Feb 8, 2014 21:51:25 GMT -6
Hasta la vista, creep
Texas Woman Executed After Luring and Murdering Mentally Impaired ManAllegedly lured disabled man to Texas to marry her, then murdered him to get his insurance benefits By Charlotte Alter @charlottealterfeb. 05, 20149 Comments Update, 7:40 p.m. ET: Basso was executed Wednesday evening; she was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. CST. A Texas woman convicted of murdering a mentally impaired man after promising to marry him and taking over his Social Security benefits is set to be executed on Wednesday, which would make her the 14th woman executed since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Suzanne Basso, 59, was sentenced to death for torturing and killing Louis “Buddy” Musso, a mentally disabled man whose body was found lacerated, beaten, and doused with bleach in a ditch near Houston, the Associated Press reports. According to prosecutors, Basso murdered Musso after luring him to Texas with the promise of marriage, then making herself the beneficiary of his benefits. Unless the Supreme Court steps in, she will be executed by lethal injection Wednesday after a federal appeals court refused to stay the execution on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Basso had a habit of making up stories about herself. She admitted that she lied about being a triplet, working for the Governor of New York, and having a relationship with Nelson Rockefeller. She also spoke like a little girl in court, claimed she was blind, and said she was paralyzed from a jail beating. Read more: Suzanna Basso To Be Executed in Texas for Killing Louis Buddy Musso | TIME.com nation.time.com/2014/02/05/texas-murder-suzanne-basso-execution/#ixzz2sUznLyNy I liked the sound of "paralyzed from a jail beating"...we could only have HOPED
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Post by Stormyweather on Feb 9, 2014 21:46:44 GMT -6
Basso was habitual liar.A woman convicted of torturing and killing a mentally impaired man she lured to Texas with the promise of marriage was scheduled to be executed Wednesday in a rare case of a female death-row inmate. If 59-year-old Suzanne Basso is lethally injected as scheduled, the New York native would be only the 14th woman executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. By comparison, almost 1,400 men have been put to death. Texas, the nation's busiest death-penalty state, has executed four women and 505 men. Basso was sentenced to death for the 1998 slaying of 59-year-old Louis "Buddy" Musso, whose battered and lacerated body, washed with bleach and scoured with a wire brush, was found in a ditch outside Houston. Prosecutors said Basso had made herself the beneficiary of Musso's insurance policies and took over his Social Security benefits after luring him from New Jersey. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to halt the execution in a ruling Tuesday, meaning the U.S. Supreme Court is likely her last hope. A state judge ruled last month that Basso had a history of fabricating stories about herself, seeking attention and manipulating psychological tests.
Leading up to her trial, Basso's court appearances were marked by claims of blindness and paralysis, and speech mimicking a little girl. "It was challenging, but I saw her for who she was," said Colleen Barnett, the former Harris County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Basso. "I was determined I was not going to let her get away with it." Basso's attorney, Winston Cochran Jr., had asked the appeals court to overturn the lower court's finding that Basso was mentally competent to face execution. He argued that Basso suffered from delusions and that the state law governing competency was unconstitutionally flawed. Her lawyer said a degenerative disease left her paralyzed, but Basso, who uses a wheelchair, blamed her paralysis on a jail beating years ago. At a competency hearing two months ago, she testified from a hospital bed wheeled into a Houston courtroom and talked about a snake smuggled into a prison hospital in an attempt to kill her.
But she acknowledged lying about her background, including that she was a triplet, worked in the New York governor's office and had a relationship with Nelson Rockefeller.
Prosecutors said Musso was living in New Jersey when he met either Basso or her son at a church carnival, then moved to Jacinto City, east of Houston, with an offer of marriage. Evidence showed Basso was already married but took over his benefits and insurance.
An autopsy showed Musso had several broken bones, including a skull fracture and 14 broken ribs. His back was covered with cigarette burns, and bruises were found all over his body. Basso became a suspect after reporting him missing following the discovery of his body. Five others also were convicted, including Basso's son, but prosecutors only sought the death penalty for Basso. "Suzanne ran the show for sure. ... She was the one in charge. She directed them. She wanted the money," Barnett said. "She's a heinous killer." Among witnesses testifying at Basso's punishment trial was her daughter, who told of emotional, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her mother, who originally was from the Albany and Schenectady areas of New York. Basso is among about 60 women currently on death row in the U.S., making up about 2 percent of the 3,100 condemned inmates. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-facing-execution-texas-22361202
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Post by charon on Feb 9, 2014 22:25:18 GMT -6
Few people deserves the DP as much as this freak.
I still don't see what the issue is regarding executing woman. If they kill, they should be killed. Full stop.
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