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AUSTIN, Texas: A woman condemned for the slaying of a 3-month-old child she was baby-sitting in her home in 1994 was given an execution date Monday.

Cathy Lynn Henderson, 49, was set for lethal injection April 18 for the death of Brandon Baugh, whose body was found stuffed in a wine cooler carton and buried in a field outside Temple in Bell County, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Henderson's Austin-area home.

The discovery came nearly three weeks after the child was first reported missing.

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Only 1.4 % of those executed since 1976 have been women. It is noted that the death penalty is sought and applied more often in some jurisdictions, not only between states but within states. A 2004 Cornell University study showed that while 2.5% of murderers convicted nationwide were sentenced to the death penalty, in Nevada 6% were given the death penalty. Texas gave only 2% of murderers the death sentence, less than the national average. Texas, however, executed 40% of those sentenced, which was about 4 times higher than the national average. California had executed only 1% of those sentenced.