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Contents. List of women executed in the United States since 1976. 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 1,601 executions performed in the United States since 1976.
Veronica Gonzales. Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime.
List of people executed by the District of Columbia. List of people executed in Florida. List of people executed in Georgia. List of people executed in Idaho. List of people executed in Illinois. List of people executed in Indiana. List of people executed in Iowa. List of people executed in Kansas.
Martha Beck (serial killer) Betty Lou Beets. Ann Bilansky. Bridget Bishop. Ruth Blay. Lynda Lyon Block. Judy Buenoano. Lavinia Burnett.
As of July 1, 2024 [update], there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 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 following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 126 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 125 people, 122 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
Majidreza Rahnavard (Persian: مجیدرضا رهنورد; 16 June 1999 – 12 December 2022) was the first person executed in public for charges stemming from his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests. [2] Rahnavard was accused of fatally stabbing two Basij militia guards during a protest in November 2022, leading to him being charged with ...
List of people executed in Virginia. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113 people were executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. All were convicted of capital murder; all but one were male. Between 1982 and 1990, all executions were carried out at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. After the prison closed in 1991, all subsequent ...