Mar 03, 2020

Sandra Lockett-Young (pic­tured, right, with Sister Helen Prejean), whose case estab­lished a cap­i­tal defendant’s right to present a broad range of mit­i­gat­ing evi­dence con­cern­ing her char­ac­ter, back­ground, and record and the circums…

Jun 04, 2019

An Alabama woman who may have been raped by guards has giv­en birth after being impreg­nat­ed in the Coosa County jail while await­ing tri­al on cap­i­tal mur­der charges. LaToni Daniel (pic­tured), an hon…

Apr 26, 2019

Arguing that a brain-dam­aged woman fac­ing the death penal­ty for the starv­ing death of her young daugh­ter ​“was inca­pable of rep­re­sent­ing her­self,” lawyers from the Georgia Of…

Jan 16, 2019

Executions have soared in Saudi Arabia amid widen­ing pur­suit of polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed death sen­tences, mass death penal­ty tri­als, and use of the death penal­ty against female activists, accord­ing to a European-based Saudi human rig…

Sep 21, 2018

Women face ​“wide­spread dis­crim­i­na­to­ry prac­tices in the cap­i­tal pros­e­cu­tion and deten­tion” in death-penal­ty coun­tries around the world, accord­ing to a new report by the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

Aug 31, 2018

In high-pro­file cas­es in Sudan and Saudi Arabia, human rights advo­cates are protest­ing the threat­ened use of the death penal­ty against women for resist­ing oppres­sion. In the Sudan, pros­e­cu­tors are seek­ing to reins…

Nov 30, 2017

From 1846 to 1870, more than 100 men and women were hanged on the branch­es of the noto­ri­ous ​“Hanging Tree” in Goliad, Texas. Many were Mexicans or Mexican Americans and many were killed by lynch­ing. In a November 25 op-ed i…

Mar 27, 2017

“We live in a gen­dered soci­ety,” says Dr. Mary Atwell (pic­tured), one of the nation’s fore­most experts on women and cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, and the men and women who go to death row are dif­fer­ent. In the lat­est pod­cast episode of ​“Discussions with DPI…

Sep 25, 2015

A group of for­mer Georgia pris­on­ers is call­ing for clemen­cy for Kelly Gissendaner, who is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed on September 29. The women say Gissendaner gave them hope and helped them turn their lives around.…

Jul 01, 2015

Michelle Byrom (pic­tured, seat­ed) was released from prison in Mississippi on June 26 after spend­ing 16 years behind bars, 14 of them on death row, for the mur­der of her husba…