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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]
Barbara Elaine "Bonnie" Wood Graham (née Ford; June 26, 1923 – June 3, 1955) was an American criminal convicted of murder.She was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, all of whom were involved in a robbery that led to the murder of an elderly widow.
Toni Jo Henry (née Annie Beatrice McQuiston; [1] January 3, 1916 – November 28, 1942) was the only woman ever to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair. [2] Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she decided to break her husband out of jail where he was serving a fifty-year sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary for murder.
The film chronicles the life of Lena Baker, born to a sharecropper family, who later worked as a maid in a small county town to support her three children.Convicted in 1945 of capital murder by an all-white, male jury, Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by the electric chair.
Marie-Louise Giraud (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France. Giraud was convicted in Vichy France and was guillotined for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area on 30 July 1943. Her story was dramatized in the 1988 film Story of Women directed by Claude Chabrol.
Montgomery is the 11th person executed by President Trump’s administration since July. Montgomery got the death sentence in 2008 for killing a pregnant woman in 2004 and stealing her fetus.
South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year. Bowman, who was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., was on Death Row for ...
Elizabeth Ann Duncan (born Hazel Lucille Sinclaira Nigh [1] (April 16, 1904 [2] in Kansas City, Missouri [3] – August 8, 1962) was an American murderer. She was convicted of orchestrating the murder of her daughter-in-law in 1958.