{{Short description|American criminal (1954–2014)}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox criminal | image_name = Suzanne Margaret Basso.png | image_caption = | birth_name = Suzanne Margaret Burns | birth_date = {{Birth date|1954|5|15}} | birth_place = Schenectady, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|2|5|1954|5|15}} | death_place = Huntsville Unit, Texas, U.S. | other_names = Suzanne Margaret Anne Cassandra Lynne Theresa Marie Veronica Sue Burns-Standlinslowski<!--https://web.archive.org/web/20050307200316/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/3.html?sect=11--><br>Sue Peek<br>Suzanne O'Malley | motive = Life insurance money | conviction = Capital murder (August 27, 1999) | conviction_penalty = Death (October 28, 1999) | conviction_status = Executed by lethal injection | victims = 1 | date = August 25, 1998 | occupation = Apartment complex security guard, seamstress<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Stomping-killer-competent-to-be-executed-judge-5146726.php|title=Stomping killer competent to be executed, judge rules|date=16 January 2014 |publisher=Chron.com|accessdate=2014-02-05}}</ref> | spouse = James O'Malley (born James David Peek)<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/6.html A Deviant Life — Sue Basso traps mentally handicapped man so she can use him as slave and kill him for insurance. — Crime Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222164840/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/6.html |date=2014-02-22 }}</ref> | partners = Carmine Basso (cohabiting boyfriend<!--Basso never legally married Basso, in a common law manner or otherwise, because she never divorced James Peek!-->)<ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/7.html A New Squeeze — Sue Basso traps mentally handicapped man so she can use him as a slave and kill him for insurance. — Crime Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222165941/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/7.html |date=2014-02-22 }}</ref> | children = 2<ref name=autogenerated1/> }}
'''Suzanne Margaret''' "'''Sue'''" '''Basso''' ({{née}} '''Burns'''; May 15, 1954 – February 5, 2014) was an American woman who was one of six co-defendants convicted in the August 1998 torture and murder of 59 year-old Louis "Buddy" Musso, a mentally disabled man who was killed for his life insurance money.<ref name="Sue Basso">{{cite news|url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/index.html|title=Sue Basso}}</ref> She was sentenced to death in October 1999. Basso was executed by lethal injection on February 5, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thewomancondemned.com/2013/09/suzanne-margaret-basso-texas.html|title=Woman Condemned: Suzanne Margaret Basso}}</ref> Prior to her execution, Basso had been held at the Mountain View Unit (now Patrick O'Daniel Unit) in Gatesville, Texas, where all of the state's female death row inmates are incarcerated.<ref name="Sue Basso"/> At the time of the crime, Basso lived in Jacinto City, Texas, a Houston suburb.<ref name="crimelibrary1">{{cite web|last=Krajicek|first=David|url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/3.html|title=The Heiress — Sue Basso traps mentally handicapped man so she can use him as slave and kill him for insurance|publisher=Crimelibrary.com|access-date=2014-02-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222164933/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/3.html|archive-date=2014-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-facing-execution-texas-22361202|title=Woman Set to Be Executed in Texas for 1998 Killing|publisher=Abcnews.go.com|accessdate=2014-02-05}}</ref>
==Background== Suzanne Margaret Burns was born on May 15, 1954, to a family from Schenectady, New York. She was one of eight children born to Florence (née Garrow) and John Richard Burns. Her mother was the elder sister of spree killer and rapist Robert Garrow. Burns was the youngest of three girls in the family.<ref name=DeviantLife>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/6.html A Deviant Life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222164840/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/6.html |date=2014-02-22 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref> She was physically and sexually abused as a child. One story among the family is that when Florence caught her daughter with a pack of cigarettes, instead of making her smoke them, she made her eat them.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Childhood of indignities: Basso's daughter tells of abuse by mother now on death row |newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=1999-09-05|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-houston-chronicle-for-suzanne-bass/176868754/ 37A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176868877/ 42A]-43A<!--Not yet available as of 2025/07/17-->|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Burns married a Marine named James Peek in the early 1970s. The Peeks had two children: a daughter born in 1973 and a son was born in 1974. James Peek was arrested in 1982 for molesting his daughter and was convicted of taking indecent liberties with a child. In the early 1990s, the couple and the children moved into a residence in Houston. The family changed their surname to "O'Malley" and adopted an Irish-American identity.<ref name=DeviantLife/> While in Houston she sometimes worked as a security guard in an apartment complex.<ref name=NewSqueeze>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/7.html A New Squeeze] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222165941/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/7.html |date=2014-02-22 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref>
In 1993, Peek became romantically involved with a New Jersey man named Carmine Basso, who owned a company called Latin Security and Investigations Corp. She never divorced Peek, so was unable to marry Basso, who moved into her residence. Peek stayed in the house for a period before moving to another residence in Houston. Despite being unable to marry Basso, she changed her surname to "Basso" and began referring to Carmine as her husband. He died in 1997.<ref name=NewSqueeze/>
==Victim== Louis Charles "Buddy" Musso had been married previously and had a son with his wife, who died of cancer in 1980. In 1997, Musso was living in an assisted living house in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, near New York City, and worked as a bagger at a ShopRite store. At age 58, he met Suzanne Basso, who was 43 at the time, at a church bazaar near his house. They started a long-distance relationship and he planned to move to Texas with Basso. He moved to the Houston area on June 14, 1998.<ref>Krajicek, David. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20041204233647/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/index.html Falling in Love]." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref>
==Murder== Musso's murder took place 16 days after his arrival at the Basso residence.<ref name=DreamDies>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/2.html Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225040119/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/2.html |date=2014-02-25 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref> The perpetrators included Basso; her son James O'Malley; Bernice Ahrens Miller and her children, Craig and Hope Ahrens; and Hope's fiancé, Terence Singleton.<ref name=BozoConf/> The perpetrators forced Musso to do chores for them<ref name=BozoConf>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/4.html Bozo Confesses] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303074356/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/4.html |date=2014-03-03 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref> and he had injuries before his murder took place.<ref>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/8.html Cries for Help] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302153640/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/8.html |date=2014-03-02 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref> According to O'Malley, Musso was killed at Miller's apartment, where he was beaten and burned with cigarettes as he sat on a child's play mat. The group also used a wire brush on him, then put him in a bathtub that was filled with kitchen cleaner and bleach. They put clothes on Musso's body before leaving him in Galena Park, Texas.<ref name=BozoConf/> A jogger found the body and called police. The Galena Park Police Department ruled that Musso's death was due to "multiple blunt impact trauma."<ref name=DreamDies/>
==Trial, sentencing, and death== [[File:Entrance to TDCJ Mountain View Unit.jpg|thumb|Mountain View Unit, where Basso was held]] [[File:HuntsvilleUnitHuntsvilleTX.jpg|thumb|Huntsville Unit, the site of her execution]] Mary Lou Keel, a Texas district judge, established that most of the suspects would get individual trials. The prosecutors were Colleen Barnett and Denise Nassar. The trial of O'Malley was scheduled to begin on April 13, 1999. Craig Ahrens' trial was scheduled to begin later that month. Miller and Singleton were to be tried together during a trial beginning in May. The trial for Hope Ahrens was scheduled for June. The final trial, that of Basso, was scheduled for July.<ref name=Fingerpointing>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/9.html Fingerpointing at Trial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303085328/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/9.html |date=2014-03-03 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref>
O'Malley was convicted of capital murder and received a life sentence. Miller was convicted of murder and received 80 years in prison. Craig Ahrens was convicted of murder and received 60 years in prison. Singleton was convicted of capital murder and received a life sentence.<ref name=Fingerpointing/> The trial of Hope Ahrens resulted in a hung jury, but she took a plea deal in exchange for testifying against Basso.<ref>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/10.html A Hung Jury] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225044841/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/10.html |date=2014-02-25 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref> She received a 20-year sentence and has since been released from prison.<ref>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/12.html On Death Row] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225092616/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/12.html |date=2014-02-25 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref> Suzanne Basso was convicted and sentenced to death.<ref>Krajicek, David. "[http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/11.html The Jail Cell Diet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225091900/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/11.html |date=2014-02-25 }}." ''Suzanne Basso and the Murder of Louis 'Buddy' Musso''. Crime Library. Retrieved on March 3, 2014.</ref> Basso was held at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Mountain View Unit (now Patrick O'Daniel Unit) in Gatesville while on death row.<ref name="DeathRowFacts">"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/drowfacts.htm Death Row Facts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806085208/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/drowfacts.htm |date=2009-08-06 }}." ''Texas Department of Criminal Justice''. Retrieved on May 6, 2010.</ref>
Since Texas no longer serves last meal requests on death row, Basso ate regular prison fare of baked chicken, fish, boiled eggs, carrots, green beans, and sliced bread. She was executed on February 5, 2014, at the Huntsville Unit of the TDCJ. When asked if she had a last statement, she replied to the prison warden, "No, sir." She was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. CST, 11 minutes after a lethal dose of the drug pentobarbital was administered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-executes-woman-for-1998-torture-killings/ |title=Texas executes woman for 1998 torture killings |last= |first= |date=February 6, 2014 |website=CBS News |publisher= |access-date=April 28, 2021 |quote=}}</ref>
{{Asof|2015}}, the other perpetrators are incarcerated at these prisons: * James O'Malley: Hodge Unit<ref>"[https://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198728 O'Malley, James David]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160121021844/http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198728 Archive]). Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on January 20, 2016.</ref> * Bernice Ahrens: Hobby Unit<ref>"[http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198731 Ahrens, Bernice]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151227210520/http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198731 Archive]). Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on December 28, 2015.</ref> * Craig Ahrens: Ferguson Unit<ref>"[http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198732 Ahrens, Craig]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151227210057/http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198732 Archive]). Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on December 28, 2015.</ref> * Hope Ahrens: Lockhart Unit<ref>"[http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198989 Ahrens, Hope]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151227205659/http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198989 Archive]). Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on December 28, 2015.</ref> * Terence Singleton: Ferguson Unit<ref>"[http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198514 Singleton Terence Jermaine]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151227210830/http://offender.tdcj.texas.gov/OffenderSearch/offenderDetail.action?sid=06198514 Archive]). Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved on December 28, 2015.</ref>
==See also== * Capital punishment in Texas * List of people executed in Texas, 2010–2019 * List of people executed in the United States in 2014 * List of women executed in the United States since 1976
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==Further reading== Media releases: * {{cite web|url=https://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id=4640|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228185806/https://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id=4640|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-02-28|title=Media Advisory: Suzanne M. Basso scheduled for execution|publisher=Texas Attorney General|date=2014-02-03}}
Legal documents: *"[https://web.archive.org/web/20050307111452/http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions-non%20published/73672.htm?sect=11 IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS NO. 73,672 SUSAN (a.k.a. SUZANNE) MARGARET BASSO, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS APPEAL FROM HARRIS COUNTY]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20050307111452/http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions-non%20published/73672.htm?sect=11 Archive])
<!--Newspaper articles listed at https://web.archive.org/web/20041209094416/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/suzanne_basso/13.html?sect=11--> Newspaper articles: (''Houston Chronicle'' articles are available from the Houston Public Library, [http://hpl.lib.tx.us/newspapers accessible with a library card] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907084738/http://hpl.lib.tx.us/newspapers |date=2013-09-07 }}) *{{cite news|last=Rendon|first=Ruth|title=6 charged in death of mentally impaired man; police say broken ornament led to fatal beating|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=August 28, 1998|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176858638/ 29A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176858670/ 31A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last1=Crocker|first1=Ronnie|last2=Moran|first2=Kevin Moran|title=Inquiry grows as beating-death case takes odd twist; suspect was featured in bogus wedding ad|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=August 29, 1998|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176858799/ 1A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176858847/ 16A]}} *{{cite news|last=Mosk|first=Matthew|title=A Lonely Man's Betrayal and Death|newspaper=Bergen Record|date=August 30, 1998|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95383171/ A-4]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last1=Crocker|first1=Ronnie|last2=Rendon|first2=Ruth|title=Suspect's life packed with eccentricities; Sue Basso, held in killing, has left a long, strange trail|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=September 6, 1998|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176860715/ 1A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176860771/ 21A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Rendon|first=Ruth|title=Slaying possibly tied to insurance' victim's policy paid off extra if he died from violent crime|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=September 17, 1998|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176861047/ 25A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176861094/ 26A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Prosecutors weigh death penalty in savage beating case|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=December 10, 1998|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176885441/ 37A]-[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176885486/ 38A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Prosecutor tells of torture, false lure of love|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=April 16, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176885578/ 31A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Defendant tries to blame mother for his role in man's death|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=April 20, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176885694/ 15A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *Brewer, Steve. "Mother, son tried to downplay their roles in torture, killing." ''Houston Chronicle''. May 6, 1999 *Brewer, Steve. "Mother, son sentenced for murder; jury delivers long terms in torture-slaying case." ''Houston Chronicle'', May 11, 1999. *Brewer, Steve. "Suspect in fatal torture case puts most of blame on others." ''Houston Chronicle''. May 15, 1999. *{{cite news|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220205707/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23126727.html|title=MAN GETS LIFE IN PRISON FOR ROLE IN TORTURE SLAYING|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The Buffalo News|date=May 21, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176884554/ A-16]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Dispatcher says slaying suspect wasn't remorseful when confessing|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=June 9, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176883756/ 36A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Witnesses in Basso murder trial say victim refused offers of help|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=August 19, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176884101/ 32A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Basso admitted role in beatings, jury told|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=August 20, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176884204/ 31A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Victim's handwritten plea for help read to jury in Basso murder trial|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=August 25, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176884311/ 27A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Convicted murderer abuses her kids, preys on weak, jurors told|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=August 31, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176884382/ 17A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Basso weeps at hearing death sentence; daughter cries tears of joy over punishment in mother's plot to kill|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=September 2, 1999|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176860870/ 1A], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176860910/ 14A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=McGraw|first=Seamus|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220194422/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-23064209.html|title=Cowboy Boots, a Scarf, and a Fatal Attraction: Cliffside Park Man's Killer Sentenced to Death|newspaper=Bergen Record|date=September 3, 1999|via=HighBeam Research/Newspapers.com|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95412299/ L-3]}} *{{cite news|last=Brewer|first=Steve|title=Childhood of Indignities: Basso's daughter tells of abuse by her mother|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=September 5, 1999|pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176859249/ 37A]-[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176859352/ 38A]-[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176859401/ 39A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *{{cite news|last=Zuñiga|first=Jo Ann|title=Woman pleads guilty, gets 20 years in Musso murder|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=October 29, 1999|page=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/176859122/ 31A]|via=Newspapers.com}} *Turner, Allan. "[http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Courts-reject-3-Suzanne-Basso-appeals-as-death-5200847.php Courts reject 3 Suzanne Basso appeals as death date approaches]." ''Houston Chronicle''. Monday February 3, 2014. *Graczyk, Michael. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20160220121623/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1A1-e32da134cdac44dab1df58173ee65cdf.html Woman set to be executed in Texas for 1998 killing]." ''Associated Press''. February 5, 2014. Available at HighBeam Research.
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{{s-start}} ! colspan="3" | Executions carried out in Texas {{s-bef|before=Edgar Tamayo Arias|before2=<div style="font-weight: normal">January 22, 2014</div>}} {{s-ttl|title=Suzanne Basso|years=February 5, 2014}} {{s-aft|after=Ray L. Jasper III|after2=<div style="font-weight: normal">March 19, 2014</div>}} |- ! colspan="3" | Executions carried out in the United States {{s-bef|before=Herbert L. Smulls – Missouri|before2=<div style="font-weight: normal">January 29, 2014</div>}} {{s-ttl|title=Suzanne Basso – Texas|years=February 5, 2014}} {{s-aft|after=Juan Carlos Chavez – Florida|after2=<div style="font-weight: normal">February 12, 2014</div>}} |- ! colspan="3" | Women executed in the United States {{s-bef|before=Kimberly McCarthy – Texas|before2=<div style="font-weight: normal">June 26, 2013</div>}} {{s-ttl|title=Suzanne Basso – Texas|years=February 5, 2014}} {{s-aft|after=Lisa Ann Colman – Texas|after2=<div style="font-weight: normal">September 17, 2014</div>}} {{s-end}}
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