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  2. Women are rarely sentenced to death in the United States and executions of women are even rarer. Researchers have suggested that women who are sentenced to death are often perceived as breaking gender norms.

  3. It does not count time incarcerated prior to sentencing nor does it discount time spent in prison off death row in cases where death sentences were overturned before being reinstated. As of 2024, there are currently 48 women awaiting execution in all of the United States overall.

    Name
    Description Of Crime
    Time On Death Row
    Other
    On June 15, 1990, 9-year-old Autumn ...
    32 years, 2 months and 21 days
    In August 2007, the California Supreme ...
    Socorro Caro
    Caro was convicted of shooting and ...
    22 years and 6 months
    Caro, who says she has no memory of that ...
    Celeste Carrington
    Carrington admitted to the fatal shooting ...
    29 years, 10 months and 12 days
    Carrington was raised in poverty in ...
    Along with her boyfriend James Marlow, ...
    35 years, 1 month and 5 days
    Coffman was the first woman to receive a ...
  4. For every 8.2 peo­ple exe­cut­ed in the Unit­ed States in the mod­ern era of the death penal­ty, one per­son on death row has been exon­er­at­ed.

  5. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 576 documented instances as of December 31, 2022, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 3.6% of the total of 16,047 confirmed executions in the United States (including the colonies) between 1608 and 2022.

    Date
    Name
    Age
    Race
    1/3/2023
    Amber McLaughlin+
    49
    White
    01/13/2021
    Lisa Montgomery
    52
    White
    09/30/2015
    Kelly Gissendaner
    47
    White
    09/17/2014
    Lisa Coleman
    38
    Black
  6. Gender Matters: Women on Death Row in the United States. This article presents a comprehensive study of 48 persons sentenced to death between 1990 and 2023 who presented as women at the time of their trials.

  7. Apr 24, 2024 · We present our data against the backdrop of prevalent theories that seek to explain both the rarity of womens executions and the reasons why certain women are singled out for the harshest punishment provided by law.

  8. We present our data against the backdrop of prevalent theories that seek to explain both the rarity of womens executions and the reasons why certain women are singled out for the harshest punishment provided by law.

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