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The prison is located in a 45-minute driving distance from Waco. [2] In addition to its other functions, O'Daniel Unit houses the state's female death row inmates. [3] [4] Death row offenders are housed separately from the rest of the prisoners in single-person cells measuring 60 square feet (5.6 m 2), with each cell having a window. They do ...
Name Description of crime Time on death row Other; Patricia Blackmon Blackmon was convicted in the death of her two-year-old adopted daughter, Dominiqua Bryant. According to an autopsy report, the child suffered a fractured skull, several broken bones, bruises and a shoeprint on her chest. 22 years, 8 months and 3 days
Christa Pike was born in 1976 to Carissa Hansen and Emil Glenn Pike in Beckley, West Virginia. Her parents had a tumultuous relationship, being married for two years, divorced for a year after Hansen was found to be cheating, and remarried for another two years after Hansen attempted suicide. [2]
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Lisa Montgomery, 52, received a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana - the first woman to be put to death since 1953. U.S. executes only female inmate on federal ...
DJRC, the state's primary women's correctional facility, houses women of all custody levels. The prison serves as the state's new female prisoner intake and classification center, and it also houses all female death row inmates. [2] There is currently only one female on death row in the state of Tennessee, Christa Pike. Women on death row are ...
During his first term as president, Trump also advocated for the death penalty for drug dealers. There were 13 federal executions during Trump's first term, more than under any president in modern history, and some may have happened fast enough to have contributed to the spread of the coronavirus at the federal death row facility in Indiana.
LCIW includes the state's female death row. [2] As of 2017 the prison has temporarily moved due to flooding that occurred in August 2016, and its prisoners are housed in other prisons. The administration is temporarily located in the former Jetson Youth Center near Baker. By 2021 the Baker area address was given for the prison on the LCIW website.