Black widow who killed husband in insurance plot may escape execution after ‘sex-mad prosecutors’ showed THONG in court
Black widow who killed husband in insurance plot may escape execution after ‘sex-mad prosecutors’ showed THONG in court
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THE only woman on death row in Oklahoma could snag a lighter sentence after her thong was paraded around in court by "sex-mad" prosecutors. Black widow Brenda Andrew, 61, has been behind bars for almost 20 years since she shot dead her husband as part of a million-dollar insurance scam in 2001.
![[Brenda Andrew, death row inmate in Oklahoma.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/2001-part-million-dollar-insurance-967538082.jpg?strip=all&w=354)
Now, her sentence could be changed as her attorneys claim she was slut-shamed in court. The prosecution team held up her thong for the jury to show the kind of underwear Brenda wore and called her a "slut puppy". The evidence also included a witness's opinion that Brenda wore a "sexy" and "provocative" outfits that showed "a lot of cleavage".
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The jury also heard details about the places and times she had flirted with other men and testimony about her affairs - including some that ended seventeen years before the crime. Brenda's attorneys claim that claim that she, a Sunday school teacher with no prior criminal record, was "sex-shamed" so the jury would give her the harshest possible sentence.
![[Brenda Andrew, murder suspect, escorted by a police officer.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/2004-shackled-another-prisoner-andrew-967558563.jpg?strip=all&w=862)
The Supreme Court last week voted 7-2 in favour of Brenda's appeal and ordered a lower court to reconsider her conviction. A Supreme Court statement read: “The prosecution elicited testimony about Andrew’s sexual partners reaching back two decades; about the outfits she wore to dinner or during grocery runs; about the underwear she packed for vacation; and about how often she had sex in her car.
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