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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 1,612 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
Amnesty International opposes capital punishment because it breaches human rights, in particular the right to life and the right to live free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. [287] Other groups oppose capital punishment on moral grounds.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
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]
Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis (April 26, 1969 – September 23, 2010) was an American murderer who was the only woman on death row in Virginia prior to her execution. [2] She was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murders of her husband and stepson in October 2002.
Native American Utah [19] 13 August 29, 2024 Loran Kenstley Cole: 57 27 30 White Florida [20] 14 September 20, 2024 Freddie Eugene Owens: 46 19 27 Black South Carolina [21] 15 September 24, 2024 Marcellus Scott Williams: 55 29 26 Missouri [22] 16 Travis James Mullis: 38 21 17 White Texas [23] 17 September 26, 2024 Emmanuel Antonia Littlejohn ...
Sister Helen Prejean is probably not the archetype that comes to mind when you think of a nun, yet she is probably the country's best-known living Catholic layperson, famous for her anti–death ...
Within the scope of capital punishment, women are far less likely to receive a death sentence and even less likely to actually face execution. Between 1973 and 2012, women comprised only 2.1% of death sentences imposed at trial and merely 0.9% of persons executed. [23]