USA (Texas): Death Penalty: Betty Lou Beets

Index Number: AMR 51/019/2000
Date Published: 31 January 2000
Categories: Americas, USA

Betty Lou Beets is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 February 2000. She was sentenced to death in 1985 for the murder of her husband after a trial in which crucial mitigating evidence was never presented to the jury, including her traumatic history of severe physical and sexual abuse from an early age.