The state Supreme Court said in an order on Monday that a September date has been set for the execution of Gaile Owens, one of two women on Tennessee's death row.

The (Nashville) Tennessean reported on Monday that if the sentence is carried out Sept. 28 as scheduled, Owens would be the first woman executed in Tennessee since 1820.

The newspaper further said that Owens, 57, was convicted in 1986 for hiring Sidney Porterfield to kill her husband Ronald, who was beaten to death the year before. Her attorneys had sought to have her sentenced commuted to life in prison.

Porterfield also is on death row.

It was also noted by the newspaper that the other woman sentenced to death in Tennessee is Christa Pike, convicted of killing fellow Job Corps worker Colleen Slemmer in 1995. No date has been set for her execution.

Since 2000, there have been seven executions in Tennessee, including Cecil C. Johnson Jr. last week for the 1980 murders of three people during a robbery at a Nashville market. (With Inputs from Agencies)