Black woman in Texas faces execution.

This article reports that unless she receives a stay, a Black woman will be executed in Texas, the first execution of this sort in the state since Reconstruction. Frances Newton's life hangs in the balance. She was convicted of killing her husband and two children, despite charges from her supporters, human rights organizations and an editorial in an Austin newspaper that she did not get a fair trial. If she had the money to have had a full investigation done prior to trial, and if she wasn't left prey to the forensic lab that took a main piece of evidence and contaminated it by sticking it in with a bunch of other clothing, Frances would likely not be facing an execution date. According to the prosecution, Newton killed her family members in 1987 in order to get the insurance money, but her new attorney, David Dow, head of the Innocence Network at the University of Houston Law Center, contends that he has uncovered evidence to prove her innocence.