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Texas set for first execution of African-American woman
Monday, August 30, 2004 at 02:15PM
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. [more 
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