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Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (née Twerdy; August 16, 1935 – June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after receiving an unsafe abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by Ms. in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States .
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 ]
Zapeta-Calil was not immediately identified as the suspected perpetrator, however, and was able to leave the scene. Images from the video were later circulated to identify him. A Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker used a fire extinguisher to put out the fire, [12] but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:48 a.m. [13] [9] [14]
Lori Ann Piestewa (/ p aɪ ˈ ɛ s t ə w ɑː / py-ES-tə-wah; [2] December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War.A member of the Quartermaster Corps, she died in the same Iraqi attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Piestewa's friend Jessica Lynch were injured.
Mary Ann Vecchio (born December 4, 1955) is an Italian American respiratory therapist and one of two subjects in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo during the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
[10] [14] Before college, she attained a perfect score on her SAT exam, [15] the only woman in the country to do so that year and only the sixteenth woman in US history. [14] She graduated from Firestone in 1966 as valedictorian and runner-up homecoming queen. [16] [17] Although her mother disapproved of her dating, Resnik had a series of ...
Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist [9] and educator who gained international attention following her conviction in the United States and is currently serving an 86-year sentence for attempted murder and other felonies at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas.
Florena Budwin (or Florina Budwin [1]) (c. 1844 – January 25, 1865) was a Union Army soldier from Philadelphia who, disguised as a man, enlisted with her husband, an artillery captain, [2] in the Civil War in order to stay with him.