United States Court of Appeals upheld the decision on March 18, 1993, and also overturned the one claim that had been granted relief. The case was sent to a federal district court, and on September 2, 1998, it denied her habeas corpus relief. After her appeals were denied throughout 1999, an execution date was set for February 24, 2000. Execution Beets was executed by lethal injection at 6:18 pm CST on February 24, 2000, in the Huntsville Unit. She did not request a final meal, nor did she make a final statement. Beets was the second woman executed in the state after the reintroduction of the death penalty. At the time of the execution, she was 62 years old, and had five children, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Like most executed criminals, Beets was cremated after her death. Her ashes were scattered over her mother's grave. Media Betty Lou Beets' crimes were retold by her daughter, Shirley Furgala, as part of an episode of the TV series Evil Lives Here on September 13, 2020. See also Capital punishment in Texas Capital punishment in the United States List of people executed in Texas, 2000–2009 List of people executed in the United States in 2000 List of women executed in the United States since 1976 References External links Offender information from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Last statement from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Last meals from The Memory Hole Clark County Prosecutor What my husband started Texas will finish 1937 births 2000 deaths 1983 murders in the United States 20th-century executions by Texas 20th-century executions of American people 20th-century American women American female murderers American people executed for murder Executed American women Executed people from North Carolina Mariticides People convicted of murder by Texas People executed by Texas by lethal injection People from Hampton, Virginia People from Henderson County, Texas People from Roxboro, North Carolina Violence against men in North America