Suzanne Basso has launched a last-minute appeal to avoid her execution scheduled for 6pm on Wednesday. If carried out, she would be the 14th woman to be put to death in America since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Basso, 59, was found guilty of the 1998 murder of Louis "Buddy" Musso. Her lawyer has argued that the case against his client has three major flaws: no mitigation evidence was presented at trial, the testimony of a medical examiner was questionable, and no testimony or evidence shows that she personally killed Musso.

Texas executions now take on average twice as long as they did before the summer of 2012, when supply shortages forced the state to switch from a three-drug cocktail to a single drug, according to an investigation by The Guardian.

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