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Kelly Renée Gissendaner (née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia.Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997).
Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,612 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2 ]
This list of people executed in New York gives the names of some of the people executed in New York, both before and after statehood in the United States (including as New Amsterdam), as well as the person's date of execution, method of execution, and the name of the Governor of New York at the date of execution. 1963 marked the last execution ...
She was executed at 9:28 pm Central Daylight Time on May 2, 2000. [8] Riggs was the fifth woman executed in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. She was the first woman executed in Arkansas since 1845. [4] Her statement before execution began: "No words can express just how sorry I am for taking the lives of ...
According to activist Kokila Annamalai, Saridewi was reportedly the first woman to be hanged in Singapore in nearly 20 years. [27] [28] Prior to Saridewi's scheduled hanging, the last female convict to be executed in Singapore was Yen May Woen, [29] a Singaporean hairdresser who was found guilty on 21 March 2003 for trafficking 30.16g of heroin ...
Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Williams, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 24, 2024 in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The New York Times observed: "She died from burns and smoke inhalation. It took the medical examiner’s office days to identify her. It took the medical examiner’s office days to identify her. But since Kawam’s name emerged, her story has become one that is likely to remain in New Yorkers’ memories."
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]