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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]
On Sunday, April 30, 2000, Riggs was flown from McPherson to Cummins in preparation for her execution. [7] She was executed at 9:28 pm Central Daylight Time on May 2, 2000. [8] Riggs was the fifth woman executed in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. She was the first woman executed in Arkansas since 1845. [4]
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 1,602 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
Wanda Jean Allen (August 17, 1959 – January 11, 2001) was a murderer who was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29, her longtime girlfriend. Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [ 1 ] She was the sixth woman to be executed since executions resumed in the United States ...
Bergen-Belsen. Irmgard Ilse Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. [ 1 ] She was a volunteer member of the SS. Grese was convicted of crimes involving the ill-treatment and murder of Jewish prisoners ...
But Singapore imposes a mandatory death penalty for people convicted of supplying certain amounts of illicit drugs – 15 grams (half an ounce) of heroin, 30 grams of cocaine, 250 grams of ...
Death sentence. Toni Jo Henry (néeAnnie Beatrice McQuiston; [ 1 ] January 3, 1916 – November 28, 1942) was the only woman ever to be executed in Louisiana 's electric chair. [ 2 ] Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she decided to break her husband out of jail where he was serving a fifty-year sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary for murder.
Christa Pike. Christa Gail Pike (born March 10, 1976) is an American convicted murderer, and the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post- Furman period. [1] She was 20 when convicted of the torture murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer, which she committed at age 18.