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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]
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 1,601 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
She became the third woman on the federal death row. Amber McLaughlin in Missouri on January 3, 2023 - McLaughlin was convicted of first-degree murder and the forcible rape of her ex-girlfriend Beverly Guenther for events which occurred in November of 2003.
May 16, 2013 · Kelly Renee Gissendaner was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, September 29. She was the only woman on Georgia's death row. She was convicted in a February 1997 murder plot that...
Feb 5, 2014 · She was the first woman to be executed in the U.S. after the 1976 resumption of capital punishment. She was killed by lethal injection on Nov. 2, 1984, in North Carolina at the age of 52. U.S...
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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.