USA: Woman scheduled for execution in Tennessee: Gaile Owens

Index Number: AMR 51/062/2010
Date Published: 12 July 2010
Categories: USA

Gaile Owens, a 57-year-old woman, is due to be executed in the US state of Tennessee on 28 September. She was convicted of soliciting the murder of her husband. She has been on death row for more than 24 years and would be the first woman put to death in Tennessee since 1820.