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Heather Leavell-Keaton. In March and June 2010, Leavell-Keaton murdered her common-law husband 's children, three-year-old Chase DeBlase and four-year-old Natalie DeBlase. Prosecutors allege that she put antifreeze in the children's food and choked them both to death. 9 years and 20 days.
List of death row inmates in the United States. As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
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 1.13 percent of the 1,595 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
Darlie Routier. Darlie Lynn Peck Routier (born January 4, 1970) is an American woman from Rowlett, Texas, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of her five-year-old son Damon in 1996. She has also been charged with capital murder in the death of her six-year-old son, Devon, who was murdered at the same time as Damon.
Kelly Renée Gissendaner (née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia. Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997). [1][2] At the time of the murder, Gissendaner was 28, and ...
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.
Karla Faye Tucker. 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]
Tisdale was being housed on Florida’s death row when the Florida Supreme Court in 2018 ruled he must receive a new penalty phase proceeding because of changes in state law that at the time ...