Women and the death penalty

Currently, 61 women are on death row in the U.S., and 11 have been
executed since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated.
Women on States with death penalty
death row
Number of women
on death row, 1
by state, as 5
of Jan. 1, 2010 1 2
1
• Only 1.9 percent 16 1 R.I.
4
of death row 1 2 Conn.
inmates are women 2 Del.
3 5 1
D.C.
Women 10 2
61 2 Federal
Men 2
3,200
NOTE: Alaska and Hawaii are not to scale

Executions of women
Number of women executed,
by state, since 1976
• 1,215 men have been executed
in the U.S. since 1976
• Virginia’s planned execution
of Teresa Lewis will be that state’s
1 first execution of a woman since
3 1
1 1912, the first in the U.S. since 2005
3
2 © 2010 MCT
Source: Death Penalty
Information Center
Graphic: Pat Carr