BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: In the United States state of Texas, officials are approximately an hour away from executing 62-year-old convicted killer Betty Lou Beets. Two United Nations human rights officials have called on Texas Governor George W. Bush to spare Beets' life. Only two options remain that could stop the execution. CNN's Charles Zewe joins us from Huntsville, Texas, with the latest -- Charles?</s>CHARLES ZEWE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bernie, Betty Lou Beets' life is down to a matter of minutes. Those supporting her cause that she should be spared and not put to death here in less than an hour say that she is a victim of prolonged abuse that began when she was raped as a child and then abused by five husbands. She was sentenced to death for killing her fifth husband, and for all afternoon she has been locked in a holding cell just feet from the gurney where she will be put to death by lethal injection here at the Walls unit in Huntsville, about 80 miles north of Houston. Her attorney has been trying and was turned by down by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans earlier today on an -- his appeal for clemency on her behalf because of her spousal abuse and because that was not introduced at her original trial. Prison officials are saying that do far she's been spending the final moments of her life quietly.</s>LARRY TODD, PRISON SPOKESMAN: She's very solemn. She's cooperative, and she's staying in her cell visiting with the officers and with her religious mentors.</s>ZEWE: That was the prison spokesman, Larry Todd. Officials are wading for the U.S. Supreme Court to make a final decision on whether they will intervene, then Governor Bush. It will be up to him to decide whether he grants a single 30-day stay of execution here. That, however, is not expected at this hour -- Bernie.</s>SHAW: Thank you, Charles Zewe in Texas.
Betty Lou Beets Awaits Execution in Texas