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and the death penalty | In 1692, (in Salem Mass) 14 women were executed for Witchcraft, the most in any year in U.S. history. Virginia executed 6 slave women in 1863. In 2001,10 were executed. The most since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Their names, with links, are listed below. |
1.Velma Margie Barfield
Executed 11-2-84 in N. Carolina
First woman to be executed in U.S. since 1962 and first since the re-introduction of the death penalty in 1976. She was also the first woman to be executed by lethal injection.
2.Karla Faye Tucker
Executed 2-3-98 in Texas
First woman to be executed in Texas since the Civil War and second in the U.S. since 1976.
3.Judy Buenoano
Executed 3-30-98 in Florida
First woman to be executed in Flordia since 1848 and third in U.S. since 1976.
4.Betty Lou Beets
Executed 2-24-00 in Texas
Second woman to be executed in Texas in 2 years and fourth in U.S. since 1976.
Christina Riggs
Executed 5-2-00 in Arkansas
First woman to be executed in Arkansas in 150 years and the fifth in U.S. since 1976. She had waived all appeals.
6.Wanda Jean Allen
Executed 1-11-01 in Oklahoma
First woman "ever" to be executed in Oklahoma. First black woman to be executed in U.S. since 1954, and the sixth in U.S. since 1976.
She was also mentally retarded having an I.Q. of 69.
7.Marilyn Plantz
Executed 5-1-01 in Oklahoma
Second woman "ever" executed in Oklahoma. Second woman executed in Oklahoma in 2001 and seventh woman executed in U.S. since 1976.
8.Lois Nadean Smith
Executed 12-4-01 in Oklahoma
Third woman "ever" executed in Oklahoma. Third woman executed in Oklahoma in 2001 and eighth woman executed in U.S. since 1976. She was reported to have had organic brain damage.
9.Lynda Lyon Block
Executed 5-10-02 in Alabama
Last Person executed in the Electric Chair. First woman executed in Alabama in 45 years and ninth woman executed in U.S. since 1976. Read about her magazine Liberatus
10.Aileen Wournos
Executed 10-9-02 in Flordia
Second woman executed in Flordia since 1848 and tenth in U.S. since 1976. She had waived all appeals and her mental state was questionable at the time of her execution. Her final statement was "I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the Rock and I'll be back like "Independence Day" with Jesus, June 6, like the movie, big mother ship and all. I'll be back,"
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