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Coffman was the first woman to receive a death sentence in California since the reinstatement of the death penalty in that state in 1977. James Marlow was also sentenced to death. In 2005, Coffman's petition to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari was denied. [20] Kerry Lyn Dalton
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 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]
The trial judge upheld the jury's verdict and sentenced Alfaro to death. [5] Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death in the gas chamber, and at the time of sentencing was the third woman on death row in California. [6] In August 2007, the California Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold Alfaro's death sentence. [7]
She worked for several years in the unit that housed California's death row for women before the state's recent efforts to transition condemned prisoners into the general population.
After Governor Pete Wilson decreed in December 1991 that CCWF shall hold all female death row inmates in California, Maureen McDermott became the first death row inmate at CCWF. [23] [24] She was the first woman sentenced to death in a period of several decades, and at one period, she was the only person in the unit. [25]
Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row ...
The legal challenge comes as the state begins to dismantle its death rows for men at San Quentin State Prison and for women at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla.
List of women on death row in the United States; Notes References. This page was last edited on 16 February 2025, at 18:37 (UTC). Text is available under the ...