DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[HairOfTheDog]

She was a cold, calculating, cruel bitch who targeted the most vulnerable out of greed.



Suzanne Basso ^ was executed by lethal injection last night in Texas.

Basso tried to manipulate psychiatrists, malingered, feigned paralysis and blindness...every trick in the book trying to avoid execution.

She is only the 14^th woman to be executed since the Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment could be resumed in 1976.

Basso was a piece of work. In 1998, she and her son and a couple of friends tortured and killed mentally ill 59-year-old Louis "Buddy" Musso.

Basso had lured Musso to Texas with a promise to marry him and then made herself the beneficiary of Musso's insurance policies and took over his Social Security benefits.

Shortly thereafter, Musso's battered and cigarette-burned body, washed with bleach and scoured with a wire brush, was found in a ditch outside Houston. The others in her ring were also convicted, but she was the leader and the only one sentenced to death.

Good riddance.