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Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia , 18 women have been executed in the United States . [ 1 ] Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,607 executions performed in the United States since 1976.
Barring the granting of clemency, she stands to become the first female British national to be executed since Ruth Ellis in 1955, and the first British black woman executed in more than a century. In 2014, key witnesses against her, including a DEA agent for whom she worked as an informant, recanted and claimed they were coerced into testifying ...
Pages in category "Executed American women" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Wanda Jean Allen;
The last woman executed by a state was Kelly Gissendaner, 47, on Sept. 30, 2015, in Georgia. She was convicted of murder in the 1997 slaying of her husband after she conspired with her lover, who ...
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.
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 13, 2027 Keith LaMar: 57 23 34 Male Black Ohio: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 17, 2027 Scott A. Group: 62 32 30 White Profile: 3 March 18, 2027 Davel Chinn: 69 31 38 Black Profile: 4 April 14, 2027 Gregory Lott: 65 25 40
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
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]