A WOMAN convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection today and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the US Supreme Court refused to block her execution yesterday.

A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection tomorrow and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the US Supreme Court refused to block her execution.

A study by two non-profit journalism organisations says US president George Bush and administration chiefs issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terror attacks.