Antoinette Frank is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995 for the murders of fellow police officer Ronald A. Williams III, 25, and two Vietnamese restaurant employees, Cuong Vu, 17, and Ha Vu, 24. Frank, who was working as a security guard at the Kim Anh Restaurant, executed the three in the course of a robbery committed along with her boyfriend, Rogers LaCaze.
In April 2008, Louisiana state Judge Frank Marullo ordered that Frank be executed by lethal injection on July 15, 2008.
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Born
April 30, 1971
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Frank would be the first woman executed in Louisiana since 1942
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Frank would be the 12th woman executed in the United States since the reinstitution of the death penalty in 1976
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The last woman executed in the United States was Frances Newton in Texas in 2005
