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May 16, 2013 · Women make up fewer than 2% of the inmates sentenced to die on death row in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Apr 28, 2016 · 52-year-old Grandmother Velma Barfield was put on death row in Raleigh, North Carolina, after being found guilty of poisoning her fiancé with arsenic. She was the first woman to be executed...
The two women, who had met in prison, had a turbulent relationship. Leathers’ death followed a protracted argument between the couple which began at a local shop, continued at their home, and culminated outside a police station.
Through never-before-seen footage from inside each prison, haunting recordings and first-person interviews, we navigate through the maze of death row to intimately witness these women’s stories. Cases include Linda Carty, Melissa Luccio, Kerry Lyn Dalton, Sandi Nieves, Emelia Carr and Shawna Forde.
Jan 12, 2021 · Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, died by lethal injection early Wednesday after the Supreme Court vacated several lower-court rulings, clearing the way for her to become...
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 1,602 executions performed in the United States since 1976.
Oct 8, 2021 · In some countries including Ghana, the mandatory death penalty for certain crimes, such as murder, has prevented some women from raising their experience of gender-based violence and discrimination as mitigating factors at sentencing.
