Women on Death Row
- There are only 569 documented instances of female executions in the 378 years spanning from 1632 through late-2010.
- Beginning with the earliest American colonial period, executions of female offenders constitute about 2.8% of all American executions.
- Since 1973, 167 death sentences have been imposed upon female offenders, which constitute 2% of all death sentences.
- In the past 100 years, over 40 women have been executed in the United States, including 12 since 1976.
- The most recent execution of a female offender was that of Teresa Lewis in Virginia on September 23, 2010. Five years earlier, Frances Newton was executed in Texas on September 14, 2005. What about 1944? Lena Baker?
- Women who are in prison are more likely than men to have killed family members or intimates (i.e. E.B. White)
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