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May 16, 2013 · Virginia Susan Caudill was 37 when she robbed and murdered a 73-year-old woman in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 15, 1998. She was sentenced on March 24, 2000.
Feb 5, 2014 · Velma Barfield was convicted in 1978 of poisoning several members of her family. She was the first woman to be executed in the U.S. after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment.
Death row images of women and men in Uganda. Marches and events to end the death penalty in Ohio. Numerous conferences, marches and rallies in states such as California, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Texas and more. People gathered to support executions.
- Karla Faye Tucker. Death was a fate that few people seemed to want for Karla Faye Tucker. In fact, commentators from across the political and ideological divide, from social progressives to US televangelist Pat Robertson and even the Pope himself, called for her sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment because she was a reformed character who was now motivated to do good.
- Aileen Wuornos. Perhaps the only female killer who ranks alongside the likes of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer in the annals of iconic infamy, Aileen Wuornos wasn’t just notorious for murdering a string of men on the highways of Florida.
- Teresa Lewis. In 2010, when Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed in Virginia since 1912, a greater than usual outcry was aroused for a few reasons.
- Kimberly McCarthy. One summer’s day in 1997, Texas-based occupational therapist Kimberly McCarthy called on a neighbour, retired academic Dorothy Booth, to ‘borrow some sugar’.
This is a list of women on death row in the United States. The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [1]
Jul 23, 2024 · Aileen Wuornos was dubbed the world's first female serial killer and ended up on death row. After her arrest, her lover began negotiations to sell her story. Nick Broomfield joins the media...
Executions of Women. In general, both the death sentencing rate and the death row population remain very small for women in comparison to that for men. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 576 documented instances as of December 31, 2022, beginning with the first in 1632.
