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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]
- List of Death Row Inmates in The United States
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in...
- Kerry Lyn Dalton
Kerry Lyn Dalton (born January 24, 1960) was convicted of...
- List of Death Row Inmates in The United States
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.
May 16, 2013 · Tanya Jaime Nelson was 46 when she murdered two women, ages 23 and 52, in Westminster, California, on April 21, 2005. She was sentenced to death on March 26, 2010.
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]
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. State-By-State States With and Without the Death Penalty
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.
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Current List of Women on Death Row. As of March 11, 2024, the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide reports there are 52 women on death rows across the United States. To see Professor Streib’s summaries of the cases of the women who were on death row as of December 2012, click here.
