41.   She quit after a serial killer she had been tracking as a forensic psychologist murdered her husband.

42.   She applied for asylum the next day, saying she had escaped jail in Zaire and her husband was murdered as a political dissident.

43.   The majority of the women who murdered their husbands were illiterate or little-educated, came from poor families or were abused as children.

44.   A married woman and her lover were stoned to death in northwestern Iran for committing adultery and murdering her husband, a newspaper reported Saturday.

45.   A Chinese woman who murdered her husband and then cut off his penis was among three convicts executed in southern China earlier this week, it was reported Thursday.

46.   A Saudi woman was beheaded Sunday in the southwest of the country for murdering her husband, the interior ministry said.