Executions of Women

In gen­er­al, both the death sen­tenc­ing rate and the death row pop­u­la­tion remain very small for women in com­par­i­son to that for men. 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.

18 death-sen­tenced women have been exe­cut­ed since 1976. They are: