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On March 20, 1899, an unusual execution took place at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Eleven men had been executed by the electric chair in the state, but on that day it was a woman who entered the execution chamber — a convicted murderer named Martha Place.
She had the unhappy distinction of being the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. Anne Sebba’s biography of Ethel Rosenberg, a book five years in the research and...
Women. Dec 27, 2022. Missouri Set to Execute Amber McLaughlin on January 3 in First U.S. Execution of a Transgender Person
Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder. She received a lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, after a last-minute...
Early Wednesday morning at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., the U.S. government executed Lisa Montgomery after a flurry of legal efforts failed to outlast a Trump administration that was determined to put a lifelong victim of torture and severe mental illness to death.
Women Executed in the US: 1900 – 2021. (source: M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smylka, “Executions in the U.S. 1608-1987: The Espy File.” (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 1994) with recent years by DPIC)
The 1953 execution of Bonnie Brown Heady, who committed Missouri’s most famous crime of the 20th century, marked the last time a woman was put to death for a federal crime. On...
