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List of women executed in the United States since 1976. 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 1,603 executions performed in the United States since 1976.
Veronica Gonzales. Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime.
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]
Christa Pike. 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.
15 years, 39 days. Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss. Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 198 days. Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance. Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 49 days.
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). [1][2] At the time of the murder, Gissendaner was 28, and ...
Martha Beck (serial killer) Betty Lou Beets. Ann Bilansky. Bridget Bishop. Ruth Blay. Lynda Lyon Block. Judy Buenoano. Lavinia Burnett.
As of November 6, 2024, a total of 34 people are scheduled to be executed in the United States. [1] All of these executions are scheduled over five calendar years in six U.S. states. [2] There are a total of 16 pending motions to set an execution date across eight states. [3]