NASHVILLE, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The Tennessee Supreme Court should schedule the execution of a woman convicted of orchestrating her husband's death, the state attorney general's office said.
The Nashville Tennessean said Wednesday the state attorney general's office has officially asked the state's top court to pick a date for the execution of death row inmate Gaile Owens.
Owens was convicted in 1986 of accessory before the fact of first-degree murder for having Sidney Porterfield beat her husband, Ronald, to death.
Porterfield was convicted for the killing and is also on death row in Tennessee.
The execution date request to the Tennessee Supreme Court comes after Owens, 57, exhausted all of her appeal attempts and saw her request for a re-hearing denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.
When Owens was sentenced to death, she became the first woman to receive such a sentence in Tennessee since the state passed its 1977 death penalty law.
The Tennessean said another woman, Christa Pike, is also on death row in Tennessee. Pike was convicted of the 1995 killing of fellow Job Corps worker Colleen Slemmer.
