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Jan 6, 2021 · Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida on Oct. 9, 2002. Wournos, a prostitute, is believed to have murdered seven men who picked her up on Florida highways, shooting them at point-blank range. She ...
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Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 19 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent less than 1.15 percent of the 1,561 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
No.Date Of ExecutionNameRace19January 3, 2023White18January 13, 2021White17September 30, 2015White16September 17, 2014BlackExecutions of Women. In general, both the death sentencing rate and the death row population remain very small for women in comparison to that for men. Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 576 documented instances as of December 31, 2022, beginning with the first in 1632.
DateNameAgeRace1/3/2023Amber McLaughlin+49White01/13/2021Lisa Montgomery52White09/30/2015Kelly Gissendaner47White09/17/2014Lisa Coleman38BlackDec 21, 2009 · Five women, about to fall victims to a firing squad, were among 100 Slovenians shot in the village of Celje in 1942. The Nazis believed that the shooting of women and children would be especially effective in discouraging resistance activity.
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Jan 13, 2021 · Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder. She received a lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, after a last-minute...
Case Summaries of Executed Women. Women. Velma Barfield in North Carolina on November 2, 1984 - She was in a relationship with Stuart Taylor who was a widower. She forged checks on Taylor’s account to pay for her addiction. Fearing that she had been found out, she mixed an arsenic based rat poison into his beer and tea.
Nov 27, 2021 · Mata Hari is photographed after her arrest in Paris. (Photo credit: National Archives of France). Updated on: November 27, 2021. Any factual error or typo? Let us know. Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France.
