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title: 'STUDIES:"Death Penalty for Female Offenders"'
description: 'Professor Victor Streib (pictured) of the Ohio Northern University Law School has published the latest edition of his periodic reports, Death Penalty for…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-death-penalty-for-female-offenders-1'
section: news
date: '2012-01-25T19:38:06-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:31:33-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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! **Professor Victor Streib** (pictured) of the Ohio Northern University Law School has published the latest edition of his periodic reports, **Death Penalty for Female Offenders**. This study offers statistics and information related to women who have been executed or are currently on death row. Among the report’s findings are:   
\- In 2011, women constituted 6.4% of all persons sentenced to death, the highest percentage for any year since 1973.   
\- As of the end of 2011, fifty-eight (58) women were on death row, 18 of whom are in California, which hasn’t executed a woman since 1962.  
\- California, Texas and Florida were the leading states for sentencing women to death from 1973 through 2011.  
\- A total of 174 death sentences were imposed upon female offenders from 1973 through 2011. These 174 death sentences for female offenders constitute just 2.1% of all death sentences imposed during the same time period.  
\- Approximately 50% of the women on death row received the death penalty for killing a husband, boyfriend, a related child, or a child in her care.   
 -There have been 12 executions of women since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, just under 1% of all executions in that time.

The report also includes information on all death sentences imposed on women between 1973-2011, including the date of crime, the sentencing jurisdiction, and the date of sentence. ***[Click here to read full-text of the report](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FemDeathDec2011.pdf).***

(V. Streib, "[Death Penalty for Female Offenders](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FemDeathDec2011.pdf)," January 24, 2012). See **[Women](/women-and-death-penalty?did=230&scid=24)**. Read more **[Studies](/studies-and-additional-resources?did=220&scid=19)** on the death penalty.