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List of women on death row in the United States. Notes. ^ Amber McLaughlin has also been identified as Scott A. McLaughlin in the death warrant and prison records. McLaughlin transitioned from male to female while incarcerated. [20] [21] [22] She thus became the first transgender woman executed in the United States. [23] References.
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...
Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, died by lethal injection early Wednesday after the Supreme Court vacated several lower-court rulings, clearing the way for her to become...
Michael Roberts. Pauline Terrago. Conviction (s) Complicity to aggravated murder. Conspiracy to commit murder. Criminal penalty. Death sentence. Donna Marie Roberts (born May 22, 1944), an American convicted of being an accomplice to murder, is the only woman on death row in the State of Ohio. [1]
Montgomery took the baby with her to Kansas and claimed the baby was her child. (Kansas City Star, Oct. 26, 2007). Montgomery was formally sentenced to death on April 4, 2008 in U.S. District Court. (Topeka Capital-Journal, Apr. 3, 2008). She became the third woman on the federal death row.
Current List of Women on Death Row. As of March 11, 2024, the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide reports there are 52 women on death rows across the United States. To see Professor Streib’s summaries of the cases of the women who were on death row as of December 2012, click here.
Actual execution of female offenders is quite rare, with only 576 documented instances as of December 31, 2022, beginning with the first in 1632. These executions constitute about 3.6% of the total of 16,047 confirmed executions in the United States (including the colonies) between 1608 and 2022 .
