Multiple states, women executed, 1991, Undated

Name

6. Cinda

7. Emaline

9. Susan Eberhart
10. Ann Hunt

ll. Ellen Osgood

12. Ella Moore

13. Margaret Harris
14, Amanda Cody ;
15. Florence English

16. Lena Baker

Hawaii-0O

Idaho-0O

Illinois

1. Elizabeth Reed
2. Marie Porter |
Indiana-0O

lIowa-0

Kansas-0

Kentucky

1. Nancy

2. Phoebe

3. Ellenor Gillespie
4, Dinah

5. Cassy

6. Hannah Hazlewood

8. Martha

9. Minerva

Race

bl

Bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

County
Augusta
Tazewell
Washington
Preston
Elberton
Liberty
Eastman
Calhoun -
Warrenton
Warrenton

Randolph

Lawrenceville

St*,. Claty

Georgetown
Lancaster
Owingsville
Greenupsberg
Hopsinville
Henderson
Mason

Georgetown

Cadiz

Method

H
H

elect.

H

elect.

Date
6-6-1830
5-10-1845
10-24-1851
5-2-1873
5-1-1874
12-19-1878
10-20-1882
10-19-1883
11-22-1895
11-22-1895

3-5-1945

5-23-1845

1-28-1938

9-30-1808
1808

7-26-1817
5-25-1830
10-2-1833
4-30-1834
Cixgrk839

10-4-1839

2-9-1856


Name

1, Emeline Meaker
2. Mary Rogers
Virginia

1. Jane Champion

2. Margaret Hatch

4, Ann Tandy
5. Elizabeth Gordon

6. Elizabeth Greenley

9. Elizabeth Twopence
10. Elizabeth Maze
ll. Eve

42), Eve

13. Mary Murray

14, Nau

15. Martha Sharp

16.

17. Judith

18. Catherine Peppers
19. Susannah Brassier
20. Violet

21. Moll

22) Chainey

24. Sarah

25. Calida

(26. Rebecca

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bl

bl

bl

bl

Bae Hy fs

County

Montpellier

Bennington

Williamsburg

Nausemond

Willaimsburg
Willaimsburg
Orange CH
Orange CH
Willaimsburg

Caroline

Charlestown
Brunswick

Willaimburg
Willaimsburg

Staunton

Highland
Staunton
Winchester
Southampton

Monroe

Method

H

H

Date
3-30-1883

12-8-1905

1632
1633

1692

1702

1712
11-26-1736

2-1737

1737

5-1739
11-23-1739
1-29-1745
1745
3~23~1755
1736

1767

1769
6-26-1772
6-3-1774
1-13-1775
3-4-1780
51783
1800
12-11-1812
7-10-1818
1821

1825

i ee
£33
14.
15.
16.-

i?:

Race

18
25
4)
19

Name

Catherine Sullivan
Martsse ~(slave)
Rose (slave)
unknown (slave)
Esther (slave)
unknown (slave)

6
Rose (slave).
unknown (slave)
Molly (slave)
Frankie Silver
Margaritte (slave)

Rachel Freeman
Massy (slave)
Matilda Carter
Caroline Shipp
Roseanna Lightner-
Paiilips:"

Bessie Mae Williams

City/County

Edenton

Duplin Co.
Haiifax: Ge.
Ouslow Co.

Johnston Co.

Pitt. Co.
(Martinbourough)
Waynesboro
Cabarrus Co,
Bourke County
Yanceyville

Oxford Co.
Wentworth Co.
Dallas Co,
Durham Co,

Mecklenburg Co.

Crime Method
Murder Burned
Arson

Murder of master

Murder of father
& master's family Burned

Murdered mistress Burned

Poison Murder Burned

Murder

Murdered husband
Murdered (2
children)

Arson

Killed master

Killed husband Hanged

Infanticide
Asphyx.

Murder

Date

1738-39
1762
1765-66
1769-70
4/1779

11/11/1780
1782-83

7/13/1805
6/20/1828
7/12/1833
5/25/1849

1856
5/8/1857
1/13/1882
1/22/1892
1/1/1943

12/29/1944


Name

2. Kate McShaw

3. Juanita Spinelli

4, Louise Pute

5. Barbara Graham

6. Elizabeth Ann Duncan

Coloroda-O

Conn.

1, Mary Johnson

2. Goody Basset

3. Rebecca Grunsmith
4, Mary Barnes

5. Catherine Garret
6. Sarah Bramble

7. Hannah Ocuish
8, ThetZa Mansfield
Deleware

1. Catherine Bevan
2. Margaret Sexton
3. Sarah Kirk

4, Sarah Bradley
Mary H. Carey

District of Columbia-0O

Florida-0

Georgia
1, Alice Riley
2. Polly Barclay

3. Margaret Seabon

5. Jenny

Race

bl

W

Indian

W

Indian

bl

bl

County >
San Fran
Sacremento
LA
LA

Ventura

Stratford
Hartford
Farmington
New London
New London

New London

New Castle

New Castle

Georgetown

Sussex

Savannah
Washington
Camden
Burke

Augusta

Gas

Gas

Burned

Date

7-1890

11-21-1941

4-11-1947

6-3-1955

8-8-1962

1649

1651

1-1662

3-1662

5-3-1738

11-21-1753

12-20-1786 ©

7-1825

9-1731

6-17-1751

1787

12-14-1869

6-7-1935

1-19-1735

5-30-1806

10-1817

1820

12-4-1829

Name Race
3. Catherine Bevan W
4. Catherine Connor W

5. Elizabeth Robinson

6. Margaret Sexton

7. Elizabeth Grant

8. Phoebe

9. Jane Ewing W
10. Elizabeth Erwin

11. Catherine Hicks

12. Mary Kennedy

13. Mullato Elizabeth

14. Catherine Fisher

15. Negro Sucky bl
16. Elizabeth Wilson W

17. Sarah Clark

18. Chloe bl
19, Hannah Miller | bl
20. Elizabeth Moore bl
21. Suzannah Cox W
22, Charlotte Jones W

23. Mary Twigg

24. Martha Grinder W
25. Lena Miller W
26. Catherine Miller W

27. Sarah Whiteburg
28. Corrine Sikes . bl
29. Irene Schroder W

Rhode Island-0O

“South Carolina

County

New Castle
Philadelphia
Phil.

New Castle
Berks
Chester
Chester
York

Berks

York

Phil.
Lancaster
Cumberland
Chester
Cumberland
Cumberland
West Chester
York
Reading
Pittsburg
Danville
Pittsburg
Clearfield
Williamsport
Phil

Phil,

Lawrence

Method
Burned
H

H

H
H
elect.

elect.

Date

9-10-1731

7-2-1737

2-1-1750

6-4-1757

3-10-1759

- 5-12-1764

1-19-1765
9-26-1765
1-13-1770

1-13-1770

- 4-30-1779

6-5-1779
7-7-1780
1-3-1786
10-30-1799
7-18-1801
8-1-1805
5-27-1804
6-10-1809
2-12-1858
10-22-1858
1-19-1866
11-13-1881
2-3-1881
6-25-1889
10-14-1946

2-28-1931

Name

27 et SUay

28. Nelly

29. Molly

30. Jane Willaims

331. Margaret Buckner
32.

33%

34. Jenny

35. Jane

36. Angelina

37. Ann

38. Eliza

39. Lucinda Fowlkes bl
40. Barbara Miller

41, Margaret Hashley
42. Mary Snodgrass

43, Virginia Christian

West Virginia

1. Milly

bl

bl

County
Southampton
Southampton
Sussex
Richmond
Culpepper
Prince William
Prince William
Alexandria
Liberty
Culpepper
Essex

Essex
Lunenburg
Richmond
Danville
Coeburn

Elizabeth City

Monogalia

Method

elect.

Date

1827

1828

9-10-1852

9-10-1852

8-12-1853

2-13-1857

2-13-1857

' 2-26-1858

9-10-1858
9-30-1859
3-23-1860
3-23-1860
4-22-1881
9-14-1883
1-22-1892
7-10-1896

8-16-1912

9-1-1798

Maria

Aanm Durent
Elizabeth Facy
Rachel Whall
Deraothy Talbye
Mary Martin
Margaret Jones
Alice Bishop

"The Goblin Crime"
Mary Farsons

Mre,. Kendall

Mary Latham

Mrs. Anne Hibbins
Mary Dyer

Rebecca Greensmith
Amy Dunby

Aose Mullender
Mre. Henry Lake
Goodwi fe Glover
Elizabeth Emerson
Bridget Bishap
Sarah Osqeaod
Rebecca Nurse
Susannah Martin
Sarah Wildes
Elizabeth Howe
Martha Carrier
Mary Easty

Mary Farker

Alice Parker

MASSACHUSETTS

ba i Sl Sy > Ne De He ae

1600's

December 10, 163
1646

June 15, 1648

GQetober 4+, 1648

1651

1653

June 1656

June i, 1660
1663
1664
16644
1664
1688
1691

June 10, 1632

July 19, 163%

July 19, 1632
July 19, 1692
July 195, 163%

July 19, 1692
Auqust is, 1632

8

September 22,1692

September 22, 1632

September 22, 169:

:
stows

ae
otiee

AY Scar
Witchcraft
Witcheraft

Hwy Fiobber y

Mur der
Murder
Witcheoraft
Murder
Witcheraft

Witchcraft /

Murder
Witchcraft
Adultery
Witchcraft
& Guaker
Witcheraft
Witchcraft
Witcheoraft
Withecraftft
Witcheraft
Mur cler
Witcheraft
Witchcraft
Witcheraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witeheraft
Witcheraft
Witchcraft

Martha Corey September 22,1692 Witchroraft
Margaret Seatt iw September 22,1692 Witchcraft
Wilmot "Mammy" Fedd \d September 22,1632 Witchcraft
ann Fudegtar WW September 22,1692 Witcheraft
Susan Chanaler W _* Witeheratt
Esther Rogers Wal July 15,° 3701 Murder

Phillis i Santember 19, 1755 Witchcraft

Fliza Jmice

August =, iS44

Murder

e

MICHIGAN

Fawnee Indian Slave

1763
arm Wy ley

March 26, i777 Murder

i ees

Name

10. Frances

11. Susan

Louisiana

l.

2. Molly Glass

7. Pauline

8. Lucy

9. Milly Fox

10. Melbaine

11. Alcee Harris
12. Matilda Jones
13. Toni Jo Henry

Maine

1. Mrs. Cornish

2. Patricia Sampson
Maryland

1. Isabella Yousley
2. Rebecca Fowler
3. Esther Anderson
4, Martha Basset

5. Mary Powell

7. Kitty
8. Henny

9. Aurelia Chase

Race

bl

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bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

W

Indian

bl

bl

County
Frankfort

New Castle

New Orleans

New Orleans

New Orleans

St. Martin

New Orleans
St. James
Carrolton
St. Charles
Monroe
Plaquemine

Lake Charles

York

St. Mary's

Calvert

Baltimore
Baltimore
Frederick
Frederick
Cambridge

Baltimore

Method

elect.

Date

9-17-1860

2-7-1868

1730

7-26-1781

7-10-1829

9-26-1829

1835

6-30-1843

12-11-1846
7-1851
2-26-1855
11-26-1875
7-31-1885

11-28-1942

1644

7-31-1735

4-17-1671
10-9-1685
4-1746
1-10-1752
1-10-1752
1820
3-2-1821
6-1831

12-20-1833


Name
10. Mary Naylor
11. Lucy Purnell

12. Mary Wallis

Mass.

1. Dorothy Talby
2. Mary Latham

3. Mary Martin

4, Margaret Jones
5. Alice Bishop

6. Mary Parsons

7. Mrs. Kendall

8. Ann Hibbens

9, Mary Dyer

10. Marja

ll. Mrs. Hurry Lake
12. Goody Glover
13. Rebecca Nurse
14, Sussanah Martin
15. Elizabeth How
16. Sarah Wild

17, Martha Carrier
18. Martha Parker
19. Alice Parker
20. Mary Eastley
21. Martha Corey
22. Ann Pudeater
23. Wilmot Read
24, Margaret Scott

25. Bridget Bishop

Race

County
Annapolis
Snow Hill

Marlboro

Boston
Boston

Boston

Charlestown

Boston
Cambridge
Boston
Boston

Boston

Dorchester

Boston

Salem

Salem

Salem

Salem

Salem

Salem

Salem

Salem

Salem

Salem .

Salem

Salem

Salem

Method

Date

1863

2-28-1868

2-10-1871

12-10-1638

3-21-1643

1646

6-15-1648

1648

5-29-1651

1651

6-19-1656

6-1-1660
9-22-1681
1684
11-16-1688
7-19-1692
7~19=1692
7-19-1692
7-19-1692
8=19-1692
9-22-1692
9-22-1692
9-22-1692
9-22-1692
9-22-1692
9-22-1692
9-22-1692

9-22-1692

NNR CS gy On M Enng gE ESTE Toa en ae

Name
26. Sarah Good
27. Elizabeth Emerson

Se »«

29. Susanna Andrews

30.

31. Sarah Smith

32. Negro Betty

33. Margaret Callahan

34. Rebecca Chamblett

35. Kate

36. Phyliss Codman

37. Bathsheba Spooner

38. Hannah Piggen

39. Abigail Converse
) 40. Rachel Wall

Michigan

1s

‘2, Ann Wyley

Minnisota

1. Ann Bilansky

Mississippi

1. Cicily

2. Carrie McCarty
3. Pattie Perdue
4, Mary Holmes

5. Mildred Johnson
Missouri

ee) 1, Mary Greenburg

2. Mary

Race

bl

bl

bl

bl

Indian

bl

bl

Boston

Boston
Boston
Charletown
Charletown
Worchester
Northampton
Northampton

Boston

Detroit

Detroit

St.Paul

Fernwood
Forrest
Rolling Fork

Vicksburg

Lexington

Crawford

Method

H

H

Burned

H

H

H

H

elect.

Date
9-22-1692
6-8-1693
6-8-1693
1696
11-17-1698
1699

1712
6-4-1715
9-27-1733
10-1741
9-18-1755
7-2-1778
1785
7-6-1788

10-8-1789

4-1763

3~26~1777

3-23-1860

5-22-1850
4-23-1920
1-13-1922
4-29-1937

5-19-1944

4-30-1834

9-30-1838

ILLINOIS

Elizabeth Feed \W May 23, 1845 Murder
Marie Farter January 28, 13368 Murder

INDIANA

Current Death Faw: Lois Thacker ¢W), Debra Brown (Bd, Faula
Cin my ey CR)

RENTUCKE Y

Naren y BR September BO, 1808 Arsen
Martha Burrell BE Qetober &, 18S7 Murder

LOUTSTANA
Pauline BE March 28, 1646 ASSault

Luu y B December 19, 1846 Murcer
Alcee (Alice?) Harris B Nevember 26, 1875 Mur cer

MAINE a

Fatience Boston W duly 24,-2173S9 Mur der
MARYLAND

Elizabeth Greene lal 1660's Murder

Martha Bassett January 10, 1732 Murcer

Mary Fiowel 1 January 1O, L7S2 Murder

Current Death Faw: Doris Foster ¢N)

Goodwife Bassett W May. iS) 160
Goody Elizabeth Enapp W 1633
Mebecca Greensmith W Jamar y 1662
Mary Barnes Wl March 1662
Hanna Ocuish ¢Fequeat I

Octeber  16yo 7s!
rant May 3, 1738

DELAWARE

Judith Fae
atherine Bevans
fargqaret Sexton
Sara Jane Bradley
May H. Carey

March 15,1688
September 10, 17
June 4, 7or
1860
June 7, 1o3Ss

23) =e SSS

FLORIDA

Current Death Bows Andrea H. Jackson ¢(B), Juci

GEORGIA

17a

Alice Ryley W

Pilly Barclay W May SO, 1806

Susan Eberhart WW May 2, 1673

amr Hunt May 1, 1874

Ella Moore E Qrteber 2O, Bes
Harris October .19,° 1889

Ida Hughes Wl March il4, lose

Lena Barker ¢Baker 2? B March &, 1 dais

Currenmt Death Fows Janice Buttrum ¢W)

December 20, 1786

eh
weed

Witecheraft
Witchoraft
Witecheoraft
Witrheraft
Murcer

Murder
f Mur cer
Muy cer
Mur der
Murder

Buenoanoa CW

Mur cer
Mur der
Murder CA}
Mur cer
Murder

Murder
Mur der

ALABAMA

Siiena Gilmore B June 24, 1330

harile Dennisen \ September 4, 1

Fhioamda Belle Martin iw OG2tober

Current Death Rows Fatricia Thomas (Bo,

AFT ZONA

11, 1957

Eva Dugan W February 21,1330

ARE ANSAS

Mary Hilhouse BR Januar y

1
Burnett December 8, 1
Mrs. Moses Dean B November j

Suara t a Jul y
Fathel

"The Duchess
Wise Lo. Pett e W April 4

Harbara Graham ! June 3,

| ie |

Leta Spinelli W Nevember 21, lod]

1, 1947

19SS

Eligabeth Annm Duncan bl August &, igor

MONNEMT DOT

leacdwi fe kriapp ial
Mary Johnson ALLS t
Mary Johnson

Martha Farsans Ww May oO,

il December

1623
Lose
Lo4e

led?

ag Bet
eed sad

Murder
Mur der
Murder

Judith Neelley ¢W2

Mur der

Murder

Mur der

Mur der

Murder
Mur der
Mur der

Witcheraft
Witeohoratt
Witchorawtt
Witchoratt

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Mary Surratt W Jil y 17, ico marnepiracy
murder Fres

WOMEN EXECUTED IN. THE UNITED STATES FROM 1600 —- FRESENT

Name
9,/ Dean
10. Mary Antoine

ll. Diana Selleck

Race

bl

bl

12. Margaret Houghtaling W

13. Rose Butler

14, Peggy Facto

15. Catherine Cashiere

16. Elizabeth Valbanburgh W

17. Mary Runkle

(18) Ann Hogey

19, Roxalana Druse
20. Martha Place
21. Mary Farmer
22. Ruth Synder
23. Anna Antonio

24. Eva Coo

25. Francis Creighton

26. Helen Fowler
27. Ethel Rosenberg

North Dakota-0O

Ohio

1. Anna Hahn

2. Dovie Dean

.3. Betty Butler

Oaklahoma

‘1. Dora Wright

Oregan-0

Pennsylvania

1, Judith Roe

2. Elizabeth Murphy

bl

W

bl

W

W

bl

bl

bl

County

Albany
Pelertoro
NYC
Columbia
NYC
Plattsburgh
NYC

Johnstown

Whitesboro

Herkimer
Kings
Jefferson
Queens
Albany
Otsigo
Nassau
Niagara

Fed.

Hamilton
Clermont

Hamilton

South McAlister

Kent

Chester

Method

H

H

H

elect.

elect.

elect.

elect.

elect.

elect.

elect.

elect.

elect.

elect.

Date
3-14-1794
9-30-1814
4-18-1817
10-17-1817
1820
3-18-1825
5-9~1829
1-24-1846
11-9-1847
7-30-1852
2-28-1887
3-20-1899
3-29-1909
b-12-1928
8-9-1934
6-27-1935
7-16-1936
11-16-1944

6-19-1953

12~7=1938
1-15-1954

6-12-1954

7-17-1903

3-15-1688

7-13-1724


Name

3. Celia

4, Bonnie Brown
Montana-O
Nebraska-0O

Nevada

1, Elizabeth Potts

New Hampshire

1, Sarah Simpson
2. Penelope Henry
3, Ruth Blay

New Jersey

ol. Hager

2. Dine

3. Mary Cole

4 Slave Girl

5. Elizabeth Fruman

6. Rosan Keen

7. Margaret Meirhoffer

New Mexico

.l, Paula Angil

New York

2. Abigail

3. Sarah

4, Margaret Kerry

5. Sarah Hughson

6. Barbara Stillwell
7. Nelly

8. Bet

Race

bl

bl

Mex.

bl

bl

bl

County
Fulton

Federal

Elko

Portsmouth
Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Salem
Rocky Hill
Newton
Morristown
Mount Holly
Bridgetown

Newark

Las Vegas

Jamaica

Albany

Burned

H

H

H

H

Burned

H

H

Date
12-21-1855

12-18-1953

6-20-1890

12-27-1739
12-27-1739

12-30-1768

1717
10-17-1788
6-26-1812
Cir... 1825
7-20-1832
4-26-1844

1-6-1881

4-26-1861

2-2-1708
1712

1712
6-12-1741
6-12-1741
1784
10-1784

3-14-1794

(2) Dolly

3. Ann Connolly

4. Ardin

8. Rhodie
9. Silvy
10. Amy Spain

11. Lucinda Teasdale

a
/ \

, A2, Rachel Cates*
13, Milbry Brown

14. Anna Tribble

15. Ada Hiers

16. Sue Loque

17. Rosa Stinette

South Dakota-0O

Tennessee

‘1. Molly

4, Eve Martin

Texas

1. Jane Elkins

Ze Lucy

3. Chapita Rodriquez

Utah-0O

Vermont

Race

bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

bl

Mex.

County
Charleston
Charleston

Charleston

Sumster District

Abbeville

Abbeville

Darlington
Darlington
Darlington
Kingstree
Lancaster
Spartanburg
Newberry
Waterboro
Lexington

Florence

Franklin

Gallaten

Hawkins

Dallas
Galveston

San Patrico

Method
Burned
Burned
H

H

H
H
elect.

elect.

Date
6-24-1754
7-28-1769
1788
1795

2-27-1825

6-15-1851
10-1861
10-1861
3-10-1865
6-23-1882
8-1-1890
10-7-1892
10-7-1892
7-28-1893
1-15-1943

1-3-1947

3-20-1807
1803
1819

1820

1854
3=5-1858

11-13-1863


Hallet Family Murders
Angel Hendricks

Sarah Hughsan
Margaret Kerry

Wench

Barbara Stillwell
Diane Silleck
Margaret Hough
Roose Butler
Elizabeth VanValkenburgh
Mary Runkle

Anna Hoag

Rioxalana Druse

Martha Flace

Ruth Snyder

Anna ANntania

Eva Com

Mary Francis Creightean
Helen Fowler

Martha Jule Beck

Ethel Rosenberg

Taling

Ringanme Fhillips
Bessie Mae Williams
VYelma Bar field

Anna Marie Hahn
Betty Butler
Davie Dean
Death

Current Femi

HW mi bret

NEW

H

MEXICO

April 26, 1861

NEW YORE

EF=ESovtsTteSlVLETwWSTtT TE WS eE lt we,

NORTH

= mm

1700
February £, 1707
July 17, 1663
June if, i741
June lf, idl
February 3, 1767
1787
1e1i¢é
igi?
1820
January 24, 18646
Navember 3, i847
July SO, 1852

February 2#o, 1887

March 2O, 1899
January 12, 1928
Auqust 3, 1lo9s4

1335

June 27,

July 16, 336
Navember 16, L944

Maroh 8,
June 19,

1901
igSS

MArROL INA

1943
1344
1984

January 1,
December 1D;
November

faa batt
am 9

QHIC

W
BR
Ll

Ringalie Grant

Nadine

December 7, 1
January is,
ret ag

January 1

CB),
Smith CW

Debra Brown

Mur cer

Witchcraft
Murder
Murder
Arsan/lansp
Arsan/Clanep
Stealing
Mur cer
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New York - continued.

Eva Coo, 6/27/1935, electrocuted

Mary Frances Creighton, 7/16/1936, electrocuted

Helen Fowler, 11/16/1944, electrocuted

Martha Jule Beck, 3/8/1951, electrocuted

Ethel Rosenberg (Federal), 6/19/1953, electrocuted.

NORTH CAROLINA.
Rosanna Lightner Phillips, 1/1/1943, gassed
Bessie May Williams, 12/29/1944, gassed
Velma Marge Barfield, 11/2/1984, lethal injection. (1st post-Furman female executed).

OHIO
Anna Marie Hahn, 12/7/1938, electrocuted.
Dovie Smarr Dean, 1/15/1954, electrocuted.
Betty Butler, 6/12/1954, electrocuted.

OKLAHOMA
Dora Wright, 7/17/1903, hanged.

PENNSYLVANIA.
Irene Schroeder, 2/23/1931, electrocuted
Corrine Sykes, 10/14/1946, electrocuted.

SOUTH CAROLINA
Sue Stidham Logan, 1/15/1943, electrocuted
Rose Marie Stinette, 1/17/1947, electrocuted.

TEXAS
Karla Faye Tucker, 2/3/1998, lethal injection.

VERMONT.
Mary Mabel Rogers, 12/8/1905, hanged.

VIRGINIA.
Virginia Christian, 8/16/1912, electrocuted.

METHODS OF EXECUTION FOR FEMALES, 20TH CENTURY.
ALABAMA.
Silena Gilmore, 1/24/1930, electrocution.
Earle Dennison, 9/4/1953, electrocution.
Rhoda Belle Martin, 10/11/1957, electrocution. (Last pre-Furman electrocution.)

ARIZONA.
Eva Dugan, 2/21/1930, hanging.

CALIFORNIA.
Eithel Leta Spinelli, 11/21/1941, gassed |
Louise L. Peete, 4/11/1947, gassed
Barbara Graham, 6/3/1955, gassed
Elizabeth Ann Duncan, 8/8/1962, gassed (Last pre-Furman execution.

DELAWARE
May H. Carey, 6/7/1935, hanging.

FEDERAL (CARRIED UNDER STATES WHERE EXECUTED).

GEORGIA
Lena Baker, 3/5/1945, electrocution.
ILLINOIS
Marie Porter, 1/28/1938, electrocution.
LOUSIANA

Ada Leboeuf, 2/1/1929, hanging
Julia Moore, 2/8/2935, hanging
Toni Jo Henry, 11-18-1942, electrocution. (She was electrocuted in LA’s portable electric chair.)

MISSISSIPPI.
Patti Perdue, 1/13/1922, hanging
Ann Knight, 10/13/1922, hanging
Mary Holmes, 4/29/1937, hanging
Mildred Louise Johnson, 5/19/1944, electrocution (in portable electric chair).

MISSOURI.
Bonnie B. Headley (Federal), 12/18/1953, gassed.

NEW YORK.
Martha Place, 3/20/1899, electrocuted (Mrs. Place was first female to be electrocuted).
Mary Farner, 3/29/1909, electrocuted.
Ruth Snyder, 1/12/1928, electrocuted
Anna Antonio, 8/9/1934, electrocuted

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Ella Watson, an early example of a woman
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Clarksburg Bridge and dumped his
limp body into the mucky Sacra-
mento River. | BB

Later, gang member Al Ives tattled
on Spinelli and she was arrested,
tried and sentenced to death. After
several appeals failed, she was exe-
cuted on November 22, 1941.

-The only other female previously

put to death in California is recorded
only as “Juanita.” According to state
department records, she was a Mex-
ican woman who shot a man at-
tempting to rape her in 1851. She
was lynched by a mob in Down-
ieville, California.

“Juanita’s” lynching recalled the

(continued on page 45)

Secretly-made photo of Ruth Snyder on the
electric chair caused scandal when it was
first brought to public’s attention.


Female Data: Kentucky

The Baltimore Sun, 6-19-1837 page 2 column 3 *

* At the late ferm of the Cirenit Court for the ville
District of Kentucky a negro woman named * asrah’,
indicted for poisoning the late Robert Dye and wife

of Mason Co. was Convicted of murder and sentenced
4c be hung on the 2A th of June.’

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female execution there ‘about twenty years previous:

Female Data‘ South Carolina

The Baitimore Sun, 9-4-1843 page 4, column a_

An account of a double execution at Laurens District
_ South Carolina of a negro man and woman on 8-25-43

for the murder of} a Mrs. Garrett. The name of the rian
was“‘Randall’ but the woman's name is not given. She
made a rambling speech at the gallows however in

which she asseverated the j ustice of hee sentence. The
man said little or nothing.

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buried in the basement of his home,
a bullet through his brain. Louise
was arrested and tried in Los Ange-
les. At her trial, more gory details of
her past emerged.

Louise Peete walked ladylike into
the gas chamber on the morning of
April 11, 1947. Just before the pellets
fell into the acid, she turned to War-
den Duffy, smiled, and thanked him
for all the compassion and under-
standing he had shown her during
her stay. ;

Pudgy Louise left behind four sui-
cidal husbands, four known murder
victims, and the ghost of another
lover she had harassed into a mental
institution.

Bonnie B. Heady was a portly 40-
year-old widow, whose bank-robbing
husband was killed escaping from
prison, when she met Carl Austin
Hall, age 34. Hall was released from
the Missouri State Prison on April
24, 1953, where he spent 16 months
for robbing a cab driver.

Together they connived a plan to
abduct six-year-old Bobby Green-
lease Jr., son of a prosperous Kansas

City Cadillac dealer. On September

28, 1953, Bonnie snatched the boy
from a private pre-grade school in
Kansas City, Missouri, and the first
ransom note arrived September 24,
1953. 4

The ransom was paid, and the two
kidnappers went to St. Louis to cel-
ebrate. Police arrested the pair on
October 6, 1953. $295,140 of the
ransom money was recovered. An-
other $300,000 was not recovered.

As for little blondhaired Bobby

Greenlease, he had been shot to’

death a few hours after his abduc-
tion, placed in a plastic bag, and
buried on a St. Joseph farm.

Both Hall and Heady were con-
victed on November 19, 1953, and
given the death penalty. They were
strapped in separate chairs in the gas
chamber of the Jefferson City State

Penitentiary on December 16, 1953..

With their dying gasps they refused
to tell where the missing $300,000
was hidden.

More recently, the last woman put
to death in California was Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Duncan who hired Luis Moya
and Gus Baldonado to kill her daugh-
ter-in-law, Olga. Gus testified: “We

46

took turns strangling her, and also
hit her over the head with a rock to
make sure she was dead.”

Appeal hymns were sang all the
way to the United States Supreme
Court, but Mother Duncan, Luis
Moya, and Gus Baldonado went to
the gas chamber on Wedne :day, Au-
gust 8, 1962.

Mother Duncan carefully arranged
herself on the hard steel death chair
and calmly waited for the guard to
pull the lever that would discharge
the deadly cyanide pellets into a vat
of acid. As the fumes fogged the

room, her eyes searched for her .

beloved son.

“Where’s Frank?” she remarked.
“Tell him I’m going nice...” Frank
was across the bay in San Francisco
making a final appeal for a stay of
execution.

In another sensational trial, Ruth
Snyder and her paramour, corset
salesman Henry Judd Gray, were
convicted of murder and sentenced
to die in the electric chair at Sing
Sing Prison. The pair murdered Mrs.
Snyder’s husband, Albert, by smash-
ing his skull with a paperweight as
he slept in his Queens, New York,
home on the night of March 20,
1927. Investigators quickly laid the
blame at Gray’s doorstep; Gray

MURDER SUSPECT

cracked and said that it was Ruth
who did the actual killing.

When they were electrocuted, on
January 12, 1928, a photographer
from the New York Daily News,
snapped a picture of Mrs. Snyder just
as the current went rushing through
her quivering body, by using a tiny
camera strapped to his leg. The pho-
to appeared in the tabloid the fol-
lowing day and was greeted by ten
thousand letters of protest. Scores of
advertisers cancelled their ads.

Fat Martha Beck and her lover,
Raymond Fernandez were dubbed by
the press: “The Lonely Hearts
Killers.” Although the executions of
the aforementioned condemned wom-
en produced wails of moans and cries
from legions opposed to capital pun-
ishment, Martha’s death failed to
muster sympathy from one person.

Thin and balding Fernandez al-
ready had two wives and several
children when he launched his career
of answering lonely hearts ads,
sweeping gullible women in their
fifties and sixties off their feet with
his gigolo line. One of these was a
two hundred-pounder named Martha
Beck, a registered nurse. They fell
in love and she joined his con game,
pretending to be Raymond's sister.

With thoughts of obtaining money
with marriage proposals, they moved
into the homes of several widows,
who eventually disappeared. In Jan-
uary of 1949, when police searched
the house for Mrs. Delphine Dowl-
ing and her two-year-old daughter,
Rainelle, they found them buried in
the cellar. The couple immediately
confessed. Fernandez said he shot
Delphine in the head when she be-
came suspicious of their scam. When
Rainelle began crying for her moth-
er Martha dunked her head into a
washtub until she stopped blowing
bubbles.

The killers boasted of eighteen oth-
er murders in and around Michigan.
It was strictly business they said. A
way of surviving in a dog-eat-dog
world. f

Judge Pecora sentenced the pair to
die on August 22, 1949, but their
date with destiny was protracted by
arduous appeals unparalleled in the
legions of capital punishment.

Appeals were filed and denied, in-
cluding the last one, on January 2,
1951. On March 8, 1951, 35-year-

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She waddled to the chair, plopped
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onds later a current of electricity jolt-
ed her huge frame and the case of
“The Lonely Hearts Killers” unas-
sumingly became history.

On Friday, June 19, 1953, Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg became the first
husband and wife to pay the supreme
penalty in New York and the first in
the United States to die for espi-
onage. President Eisenhower-and the

‘Supreme Court upheld the legality
of the death sentence imposed by
Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman.
Eisenhower had once before refused
executive clemency, on February
11th.

Ethel Rosenberg sat in the electric
chair at Sing Sing prison “with the
most composed look you ever saw,”
said one witness. She winced a bit
as the electrode came in contact with
her head, but her arms remained re-
laxed under their binding straps. She
waited in silence while the guards
dropped a leather mask over her face.

The first of the three successive
shock-waves was applied at 8:11
p.m. After the third shock, two doc-
tors applied their stethoscopes and
found she was still alive. After two
more applications of the current, 37-
year-old Mrs. Rosenberg was pro-
nounced dead at 8:16 p.m.

The first woman to die in Ohio’s
electric chair was Anna Hahn, a na-
tive of Germany. Anna was born in
1906 and immigrated to Cincinnati
at age 21. She met and married a
telephone worker, briefly managed a
bakery, and became bored with her
humdrum life.

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Dear Editor,

STARTLING DETECTIVE calls it-
self a fact-crime magazine, but la-
tely all I've seen in it are stories
dripping with sex and more sex.
Does every crime have to involve
a depraved sex maniac stalking
young women? I'd much rather
read about good sleuthing than
mutilation killings.

; John Stetson
Kokomo, Ind.
Dear Editor,

Time and time again we read
stories in your magazine of paro-
lees killing people. Who’s to
blame? | think it’s the psychia-
trists who allow these criminals
back out on the streets. Surely it
doesn’t take all that much sense
to know that a homicidal maniac
won't change his stripes after just
a year in jail. Yet so many of these
guys are getting their freedom af-
ter only a slap on the wrist. They
should put the psychiatrists in jail
for allowing them loose.

Gerry Preston
Westbury, Conn.
Dear Editor,

It takes many years to know
what true Christian faith is. Even
born-again Christians admit that
retrieving their lost faith is not
something that occurs overnight.
That’s why I’m suspicious of all of
these convicts on death row who
suddenly turn holy. To my mind,
they are just trying to escape their
executions. Maybe we can show
some compassion to condemned
men, but let’s not mistake every
one of them who accepts Chris-
tianity on the spur of the moment
as a prime candidate for parole.

Sam Moffet
Salt Lake City, Utah
Dear Editor,

From time to time | read stories
in STARTLING DETECTIVE which
deal with exorcism. Invariably the
person who performs the exor-
cism is a devil-worshiper or cult
freak whe uses torture and per-
verse se» on the victim. In true

exorcism, this Is not the case. As
one who has been called on to per-
form exorcisms, | can say that the .
rite is carried out purely for the
benefit of the person possessed.
Any pain or discomfort comes
about accidentally, not through
any intention of the exorcist.
P.W.
Shreveport, La.
Dear Editor,
1 live not far from one of the
country’s federal penitentiaries,
where some of the worst criminals’

-are incarcerated. In the first six |

months since living here, | didn’t

give the prison much thought. But |

from stories I’ve read about
prisoners rioting and breaking out,
I'm beginning to worry that one
morning Ill wake up to see a shiv
at my throat. Alcatraz was the only
escape-proof prison. Maybe it’s
time to bring it back.
Jane Hope
Middletown, Conn.

Dear Editor,

Supporters of gun control say
that registering guns will keep peo-
ple from committing murders. I say
it’s not so. People often kill out of
passion and that’s what is at the
root of many homicides. As long
as people have strong feelings,
they'll commit murders, and
whether we register guns or not,
feelings will always at times run
out of control.

Joe Rothman
Dallas, Texas

Dear Editor,

| think convicted killers who
plead to be executed are all a
sham. The only reason they say
this is to get publicity so that
groups opposed to capital pun-
ishment will start agitating to
‘save’ them. When this fails and
execution is near, the convicted
killer starts singing a different
tune to ask for clemency! Like |

said, a sham.
Hugh Barkley
Atlanta, Georgia

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Setting her sights on easy money,
she took out a $25,000 insurance pol-
icy on her husbandjjand shortly af-
terwards Phillip Hahn was rushed to
the hospital over Arina’s objections.
Phillip survived, " his marriage
didn’t.

A superbly iniagigflive liar, Anna,
with a total lack of;training, hired
herself out as a live-in-nurse, and her
patients systematically died off. Their
deaths were always beneficial to An-
na. Ernest Koch died on May 6,
1932, leaving Anna his house. Next,
she borrowed a tidy’ ‘Sum from Albert
Parker, signing an IOU. He mysteri-
ously died and the IOU vanished. Ja-
cob Wagner left het $17,500 in his
will. George Gsellman left her
$16,000. +

: In 1937, George Obendoerfer was
iured to Anna’s fictitious ranch in
Colorado, for his health. He arrived
in Denver, where Anna put him up
in a hotel room. A porter found him
dead the next morning. Anna with-
drew $7,000 from the dead man’s
bank account. It looked like clear
sailing. io

But when greedy Anna refused to
pay for the old man’s funeral, a po-
lice inspector arched his eyebrows.
He insisted on an autopsy. The post-
mortem examination revealed that
George’s body was saturated with ar-
senic. Court orders followed, de-
manding exhumation. of her previous
clients.

Anna Hahn was convicted of mul-
tiple murder and sentenced to die.
She remained cool until June 20,
1938. Then she panicked at the last
minute and had to be dragged to the
electric chair, screaming and crying,
“Please don’t kill me! I don’t want
to die!” she wailed. »

In June of 1989, the U.S. Supreme
Court refused to hear the appeals of
two female Texas death row inmates,
31-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and
55-year-old Betty Lou Beets.

Voluptuous Karla Faye Tucker was
characterized at her trial as “the em-
bodiment of evil.” She was convict-
ed of the 1983 pickaxe/slaughters of
27-year-old Jerry Lynn Dean and 32-
year-old Debbie Thornton, in Dean’s
Houston home.

Tucker testified that she dug the
point of the pickaxe through the top

of Dean’s skull to stop him from
making the gurgling sound she heard
when her co-defendant, Danny Gar-
rett, beat him on the head with a
hammer. She said she hacked Thorn-
ton when she found her hiding be-
neath the bed covers.

Witnesses claimed that Tucker, a
seventh-grade dropout, bragged to
them that she received sexual grati-
fication every time she struck her
victims with the pickaxe. The mur-
deress said she and Garrett went to
Dean’s place to steal motorcycle
parts. Tucker admitted to having
been involved heavily into drugs
since she was 10 years old.

Betty Lou Beets was convicted of
capital murder in the 1983 shooting
death of her fifth husband, Jimmy.
She buried him in a wishing well in
their Dallas front yard. Prosecutors
said she did it for the $100,000 in-
surance policy, naming her as bene-
ficiary.

. Betty Lou also has a murder in-
dictment r-nding against her in con-
nection with the cold-blooded mur-

der of her fourth husband, Doyal
Barker. Probers found his maggot-
ridden corpse under a tool shed in
the Beets yard.

There are two other women on
death row in Texas: Pamela Lynn
Perillo, 32, and Francis Elaine New-
ton, 26.

Pretty Pamela Lynn Perillo was a
former barmaid and ninth-grade
dropout, who was twice convicted
and sentenced to die for the Febru-
ary 1980 robbery/murder of 26-year-
old Bobby Skeens. Bobby and a
friend, Robert Banks, made the mis-
take of picking up Perillo and two
hitchhiking companions, Jimmy Brid-
dle and Briddle’s ex-wife, near the
Astrodome.

The two men took the trio home
with them and let them spend the
night. When Skeens and Banks left
to buy some coffee and doughnuts,
the trio looted the house and waited
for their return. When the men re-
turned, Briddle and Perillo pounced
on them, wrapped ropes around their
necks and each pulled on one end

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before. He was definitely not from
the priest’s congregation.

Mrs. Gross had been in the church
at four in the afternoon and had no-
ticed a man kneeling before the al-
tar, his hands clasped, tears running
down his cheeks and his lips mov-
ing in what she thought was fervent
prayer. Moved by his obvious dis-
tress, she had approached him and
had asked if there was anything she
could do to help. ;

The man had blurted out that he
had killed the only woman he’'ever
loved, and when the horrified Mrs.
Gross had suggested that he confess
his crime to the priest, he had agreed
to do so.

The confession had, however, been
no more detailed than the one he had
made to Mrs. Gross. He had killed
the only woman he had ever loved.
It had taken place in Vienna on Sun-
day night. :

Both Mrs. Gross and the priest had
urged him to go to the police and he
had said he would. So far, however,
the Linz Police had seen nothing of
him. Although Vienna is a big city,
murders do not take place there every
night and on the preceding Sunday,
there had been only one, that of
Monika Fischer. The murderer whom
Inspector Willenbeck and Sergeant
Hallauer had been seeking appeared
to be in Linz.

However, his identity was more of
a mystery than ever. He was defi-
nitely not one of the three missing
rockers. Both Mrs. Gross and the
priest described him as being in his
late thirties or even early forties. He
was haggard, had large, dark eyes set
at an angle, wore a thick, black mus-
tache and had his hair cut in a stylish
sort of soup-bowl cap over the top
of his head.

“We don’t have a description of
anybody like that,” said the sergeant.
“He must be one of her customers,
maybe from before she went to work
for the circus.”

“Try the circus manager with the
description anyway,” said the in-
spector. “Maybe it’s somebody: who
did work for the circus, but who’s
left.”

Instead of simply reciting the de-
scription of the suspect, the sergeant
had the police artist make up a
sketch which Mrs. Gross and the
priest from Linz pronounced to be a
good likeness.

It was. The circus manager imme-
diately recognized the picture and
said, “Why, that’s the German, Uwe
Bartsch!”

Bartsch was one of the laborers
with the circus and came from Ham-
burg. According to his personnel
record, he was thirty-four years old
and divorced.

The manager thought that Bartsch
was still working with the circus in
Vienna as he had money on the
books, but a check showed that no
one had seen him since the afternoon
of Sunday, August 14th.

There seemed little doubt that
Bartsch was the murderer, but aside
from asking the Linz police to keep
an eye out for him, the inspector
took no action. He knew that a mur-
derer who was so conscience-strick-
en that he was going around con-
fessing to casual strangers would be
turning himself in very shortly.

Shortly turned out to be two days.
At that time, Bartsch came to police
headquarters in Linz and confessed
to the murder of Monika Fischer, a
girl nearly young enough to be his
daughter.

The motive had been what the in-
spector had suggested. Bartsch, who
came from the village of Appen out-
side the big, Wesi German port of

Hamburg, had been hopelessly in
love with Monika and had followed
her to the discotheque that night. He
had seen her come out with the five
rockers and had watched while the
six engaged in group sex in a nearby
park. When it was over, the rockers,
having no further use for Monika,
had simply left and he had offered
to escort her back to the circus.

As they arrived in front of the tent,
he had asked her to marry him. She
had replied, why marry? He could
have whatever he wanted from her
without marriage and at very rea-
sonable rates.

“It was too much!” blubbered
Bartsch. “My first wife was a whore.
That’s why I divorced her. When
Monika said that, I just sort of
blacked out and I guess I hit her,
strangled her maybe. I don’t know.
Anyway, she was dead.

“I should have given myself up im-
mediately. I don’t care what happens
to me now.”

The court was not very sympathet-
ic toward Uwe Bartsch. He was not
young. He was not in style. He was
not terribly clever and promising. On
February 8, 1985, they found him
guilty of murder without premedita-
tion and sentenced him to eighteen
years imprisonment. *

Death Row Women

(continued from page 11)

hanging of Ella Watson, or Cattle
Kate, who was hanged in the Sweet-
water Valley of Wyoming, Sunday,
July 20, 1888, by vigilantes for cat-
tle rustling.

Six years after Spinelli was exe-
cuted, lovable Louise Peete was sent
to the gas chamber amid a wave of
protesters who saw her as a woman
victimized by society and a heartless
governor, Earl Warren, who stead-
fastly refused to intervene on her be-
half.

Her actual name was Lofie Louise
Preslar, and she was born in Bi-
enville, Louisiana, in 1884, to well-
to-do parents of a publishing com-
pany. They sent her to the finest
finishing schools and fastooned her
like a princess. Wasp-waisted, beau-
tiful, and smart as a whip, radiant
Louise was pursued by scores of men
and soon became so sexually active
that she was expelled from a New
Orleans school and sent home. Re-

locating to Shreveport, she became
a callgirl and used her prostitution
nest egg to travel in style.

With age, Bosomy Louise grew fat,
and married so many times even she
lost count. After one husband, hotel
clerk Harry Faurote, caught her in
bed with another man and hanged

himself, she married traveling sales-—

man Richard Peete in 1915. In 1920
she left her husband and daughter
and went to Los Angeles. Here, she
met, and moved in with multimil-
lionaire Jacob Charles Denton.

On May 30, 1920, Denton van-
ished. She told questioning officers
that Denton had had a fierce squab-
ble with a Mexican woman, and, in
the course of a struggle, she sliced
off his arm with a butcher knife. He
was so embarrassed, she told the po-
lice, that he was in hiding.

Police inspecting the Denton home
found the wealthy executive’s body

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Francis Elaine NeWton was con-
victed of killing her husband, Adrian,
23, son, Alton, 7; and'daughter, Far-
rah, 21 months. Shé’shot them to
death in their West Mount Houston
home on April 7, 1987. According
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berserk when she caught her dope-
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lives, naming herself a8 beneficiary.
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named “Charlie” killed her family
out of anger because hér husband re-
neged on a narcotics tab.

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throughout the United. States, but
there is little chance they will ever
be executed. According to figures
compiled by the NAACP Legal De-
fense Fund, since capital punishment
was reinstated in 1974, only one
woman has been executed. That was
Velma Barfield, who. was put to
death by lethal injection in North
Carolina in 1984, ie

43-year-old Maureen. McDermott
was sentenced to death for paying a
man to murder her roommate so she
could collect his insurance. She was
the first woman sentenced to death
in California in 15 years, and at this
writing is the lone female in the
maximum security housing facility
called Greystone Unit of the Cali-
fornia woman’s prison at Frontera.

Death Row for women at Frontera
is a far cry from the stretched series
of cellblocks at San Quentin Prison,
where 297 condemned men await a
date with ‘he executioner; The wom-
en’s Death Row consists of a single
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contact to the outside world, or even
other inmates. She lives on Death
Row in complete isolation. She has
one hour—alone—to exercise ina

_walled-off patch behind the prison.

She is allowed three showers a week.

In contrast, men on death row are
allowed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to play
cards, table tennis or wander around
and visit other inmates. They play

_ basketball, lift weights or work out.

Unlike women, men on death row
are allowed access to typewriters,
and men are allowed contact visits
while women are separated from vis-
itors by glass and must speak by tele-
phone.

Men ate allowed various privileges
because a number of inmates filed a
lawsuit in the late 1970s, and a fed-
eral court ordered San Quentin au-
thorities to improve conditions for
death row inmates. But the court or-
der failed to mention women.

Prison officials at Frontera have
maintained that it would cost too
much money and would be too time-
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shoulder and whispered in
her ear: “Take a deep
breath and it won ‘t be so
bad.”

Barbara, who had crushed the skull
of an elderly spinster named Mabel
Monahan. with the butt of a gun, on
March 9, 1953 during a burglary,
looked up at the guard and mumbled:
“How the hell would you know?”

Feretti, now 86 and a resident of
Petaluma, said of all the 126 people
he had led into the execution room,
frail and delicate Barbara ‘Graham
was the only one that he felt sorry
for.

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the State of California, the Graham
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1, 1951. She had be€n convicted of
killing a truck driver in a barroom
brawl. She died in the prison hospi-
tal two years later of pancreatic can-
cer. Br

Maggie Morgan, of Harris County,
Texas, was sentenced to die in 1961
for the murder of Wilma Selby,
whose body one investigator said,

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joring in home economics and inte-
rior designing, and working nights,
she had little time for Social activities
and he was positive she had no oth-
er male fiiends other than himself.

One of the technicians with the
crime scene team came out of the
apartment to reportito McNickle.
What he had to say. completely
changed previous conceptions as to
what might have happened.

“Something doesn’t add up in
there,” the technician stated.

“Yes?” McNickle questioned.

“I don’t think the girl was killed in
the apartment,” he announced.

“What? Are you sure about that?”

“I can’t be positive, but like I said,
it doesn’t add up.”

The technician pointed out that the
victim had been stabbed numerous
times in the chest and throat, but
there was little blood on the bedroom
floor. There were no signs of a
forced entry, and no indication of a
struggle. :

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have their convictions overturned by
a higher court. Subsequently, they re-
ceived lighter sentences.

One inmate, who was 18 in 1961,
was condemned for shooting a Hous-
ton insurance salesman six times,
then dumping his body in a lay-by
at the side of the road and setting it
afire. Her death sentence was over-
turned, she was tried again and giv-
en a five-year sentence. She was
paroled in 1965.

Texas authorities say that the next
woman to feel the executioner’s nee-
dle will be Pamela Lynn Perillo. One
of Perillo’s three attorneys, Christian
Dasek, says that he also feels certain
that Texas will execute Perillo in the
near future.

Latest estimates say there are 1,618
female offenders incarcerated in the
653-bed Mountain View and the 945-
bed Gatesville units, bordering pas-
toral Coryell County. Another 1,300
convicted females are nestled in
county jails, awaiting transfer to
TDC—a penitentiary for the most
cold-blooded and ruthless women in
Texas,

According to TDC authorities, 60

percent of the 550 females assigned
to one unit are serving aggravated
sentences, One-third are such a seri-
ous threat that they have to be’ iso-
lated because of repeated attacks on
staff and other inmates,

“Most women are spontaneous,”
said one supervisor of close-custody
convicts at Gatesville. “They start
pulling hair, scratching, biting. It’s
just a cat fight.”

Throughout the United States, con-
demned women are virtually ignored
because politicians would rather
avoid talking about women when ad-
vocating the death penalty.

“You're not going to get much po-
litical mileage out of saying: “Let’s
fry a few of these women,” said one
university professor who was inves-
tigating the matter. “This doesn’t fit
the get-tough-on-crime sloganeering.
When politicians talk about the death
penalty, and someone asks them
about women, they get embar-
rassed—they try to avoid the sub-
ject.”

Therefore, critics say, it is also easy
to ignore living conditions for death _
row women. There are only 33 con-
demned women in the United States,
as compared to 2,500 condemned
men, so they are less visible and
have fewer supporters. *

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WoMEN EXECUTED IN THE UNITED STATES UP TO OCTOBER 31, 1984

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Name Race County Method
Alabama
i Patsy bl Perry H 1825
i Montezuma H 1835
3. bl Montezuma H 1835
4, Fanny bl Perry H 8-9-1836
Se bl H 1839-40
6. Mary bl H 1842
7. Nancy bl Montgomery H 3-1844
os Pherehe bl Fayette H 1849
9, Martha bl Dallas H 1855
10. Nancy bl Pile H 1859

fe ll. Jane | bl Mtgy. H 7-13-1860
ids Lazvaie Be Mtgy H 1861
13. Eliza bl Marengo H 1863-64
14. Pauline McCoy bl Union Springs H 10-12-1888
15. Selena (o1/matbl Jefferson elect. 1-24-1930
16. Earle Dennison W Elmore elect. 9-14-1953
17. Rhonda Martin W Mtgy elect. 10-11-1957

(18. Rachel bl Mobile H 5-25-1827

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Arizona
1. Dolores Moore Tuscon H 1865
2. Eva Dugan W Pima H 2-21-1930
Arkansas

9g iahevina Burnett W Fayetteville H 11-8-1845
California

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