Women on Death Row

Ladies on Death Row It is undoubtedly uncommon for a lady to be given capital punishment in the United States. Of the 3,146â persons waiting for capital punishment in the U.S. as of February 2013, just 61 of them, or 1.9 percent, were ladies. Of the 61 ladies who were waiting for capital punishment in 2013, 13â of them were indicted for slaughtering their spouses as well as boyfriends,â 12 were sentenced for murdering their kids and two executed both their husbands and their youngsters, as per Victor L. Streibs explore in Death Penalty For Female Offenders, January 1, 1973 through February 20, 2013.â Hardly any Women on Death Row There are roughly 50,000 ladies in detainment facilities in the United States, just 0.1 percent of them are waiting for capital punishment. In contrast with men, demise condemning rates stay exceptionally low, with just 566 all out executions completed against ladies since the primary recorded execution in 1632 or under 3 percent of the all out executions. Not very many ladies enter the capital homicide framework, less despite everything are ever really executed, as indicated by the Death Penalty Information Center: Ladies represent just 1 out of 10 homicide arrests.Women represent just 1 out of 47 capital punishments forced at the preliminary level.Women represent just 1 out of 51 people by and by on death row.Women represent just 1 of every 110 people really executed in the advanced time (since 1976). 14 Female Executions Rundown of Women Executed in the United States Since 1976 Number Date Name Ageat Execution Ageat Offense Race State Technique 1 November 2, 1984 Velma Margie Barfield 52 45 White North Carolina Deadly infusion 2 February 3, 1998 Karla Faye Tucker 38 23 White Texas Deadly infusion 3 Walk 30, 1998 Judias V. Buenoano 54 28 White Florida Electric shock 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets 62 46 White Texas Deadly infusion 5 May 2, 2000 Christina Marie Riggs 28 26 White Arkansas Deadly infusion 6 January 11, 2001 Wanda Jean Allen 41 29 Dark Oklahoma Deadly infusion 7 May 1, 2001 Marilyn Kay Plantz 40 27 White Oklahoma Deadly infusion 8 December 4, 2001 Lois Nadean Smith 61 41 White Oklahoma Deadly infusion 9 May 10, 2002 Lynda Lyon Block 54 45 White Alabama Electric shock 10 October 9, 2002 Aileen Carol Wuornos 46 33 White Florida Deadly infusion 11 September 14, 2005 Frances Elaine Newton 40 21 Dark Texas Deadly infusion 12 September 23, 2010 Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis 41 33 White Virginia Deadly infusion 13 June 26, 2013 Kimberly LaGayle McCarthy 52 36 Dark Texas Deadly infusion 14 February 5, 2014 Suzanne Margaret Basso 59 44 White Texas Deadly infusion Source: Death Penalty Information Center