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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).
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]
Date of execution Name Race Age at execution Age at offense State Method Ref. 1 November 2, 1984 Margie Velma Barfield: White 52 45 North Carolina: Lethal injection [3] 2 February 3, 1998 Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 ...
When she was a child, Lisa Montgomery was subject to routine sexual violations, rapes, and abuse. None of this mattered in 2007 when she was sentenced to the death penalty for a crime she ...
1963 marked the last execution in New York State. Some executions recorded during the 17th and 18th centuries do not indicate the name(s) of the executed and therefore are not included. Regarding electrocutions, which comprise a large percentage of the executions: [1] 55 people (54 men and 1 woman) were electrocuted at Auburn Correctional Facility
Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.
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 ...
Mary Frances Creighton (July 29, 1899 – July 16, 1936) was an American woman convicted and executed for murder by poisoning. [1] Creighton was nicknamed "The Long Island Borgia" and the "Black-Eyed Borgia [2] by the press, because of her use of arsenic poisoning. She was sentenced to death by electric chair. She passed out before the ...