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Frances Elaine Newton (née McLemore; April 12, 1965 – September 14, 2005) was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas for the April 7, 1987, murder of her husband, Adrian, 23, her son, Alton, 7, and daughter, Farrah, 21 months.
Sep 9, 2005 · Frances Newton is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 14, 2005, for killing her husband and two children in 1987. She claims she is innocent and has an alternative theory of the crime, but the state's case is based on weak and compromised evidence.
Sep 15, 2005 · Frances Newton was executed in 2005 for killing her husband and two children in 1987. She claimed innocence and appealed to the Supreme Court, but her requests were denied.
Sep 15, 2005 · Frances Newton was convicted of killing her husband and two children in 1987 and claimed she was innocent. She was the first black woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War and the third woman in the state since 1982.
Frances Newton was the first state-sponsored execution of an African-American female in Texas since the civil war. Newton is the third woman put to death by the state of Texas since capital punishment resumed following the end of a US national moratorium on the death penalty in 1982.
Sep 15, 2005 · Frances Newton, convicted of murdering her husband and their two children in 1987, was executed last night in Huntsville, Tex. The Supreme Court declined to review Ms....
Sep 15, 2005 · HUNTSVILLE - Frances Newton, convicted of killing her husband and two children to gain $100,000 in insurance benefits, was executed Wednesday as dozens of death house protesters fervently prayed...
