Skip to main content

The Twelve Women the United States has Killed

In 1976, the United States Supreme Court allowed the country to resume the practice of capital punishment. Since then 12 women have been murdered by their country.

Velma Barfield was executed in November of 1984 for the arsenic poisoning of her live-in boyfriend.







Karla Faye Tucker was executed in February of 1998 for the double pick ax murder of two people.




Judy Buenoano was executed in March of 1998 for the poisoning death of her Vietnam vet husband. She also drowned her crippled son, blew up a fiance and is thought to have killed a boyfriend


Betty Lou Beets was executed in February of 2000 for the shooting death of her husband.





Christina Marie Riggs was executed in May of 2000 for the suffocation deaths of her two children.




Lois Nadeen Smith was executed in December of 2001 for the shooting death of her sons girlfriend.



Wanda Jean Allen was executed in January of 2001 for the murder of a childhood friend and the murder of her lesbian lover.




Mary Kay Plantz was executed in May of 2001 for hiring her teenaged boyfriend and an accompice to murder her husband.




Linda Lyon Block was executed in May of 2002 for the murder of a police officer in a shootout with her boyfriend.




Aileen Wournos was executed in October of 2002 for killing six of her prostitution clients.





Frances Newton was executed in September of 2005 for the shooting deaths of her husband and two children.



Teresa Lewis was executed in September of 2010 for the hired killings of her husband and stepson.

Comments

  1. Anonymous10:02 PM

    I am not a fan of the death penalty. It bothers me that someone may be executed wrongly. I recently watched a special about women and the death penalty in which one woman stated she would have rather died than spend anymore time in prison. If that is a true statement, then it stands to reason life in prison is a more apt punishment. Just my humble opinion.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous10:04 PM

    Also, Lynda Lyon was a veryyyy cold but intelligent (not smart or she would have never shot the cop) who seriously would have been punished with life in prison. She showed absolutely no remorse, at all.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous10:56 PM

    I'm sure you read about the news. Deborah Milke from Arizona's death row had her conviction overturned! That's pretty convincing proof that the death penalty is flawed!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

What Are Your Thoughts? Remember, you don't have to read this blog if it makes you mad. Name-calling and temper tantrums have no place here.

Popular posts from this blog

Darlie Routier Texas

I was contacted by a penpal of Darlie Routier's who gave me some of the most recent advances in her case to share with you all. I began writing to Darlie in December of 2005 and she is one woman whom I will never understand how she got behind bars. Really. You know what else? With all the information ALREADY out there about this case, in addition to the newly discovered info, I think if you can't see this poor woman's innocence, you may just be an asshole. So many legal flubs, so much question and police innuendo that turned out to be nothing. So many fingers pointed and road blocks thrown up, I am surprised this case isn't used in other countries to point to the clusterfuck we call a justice system.  I believe Darlie could have been released ages ago if the state had done the necessary DNA testing. Sadly, Texas has tried to stop it in every unconstitutional way they could pull out of a bull's ass. BUT- there is hope on the horizon. This from Camp Darlie ...
69 comments
Read more

Heather Birden Connecticut

Holly Aeschlimann Holly Aeschlimann, 19 was murdered in Connecticut in April of 2015. This case is amazingly close to that of Rachel Wade. Holly and her killer, Heather Birden, 20, had a longstanding dislike for each other. Heather had stabbed another girl, a juvenile, once before in 2014. She was  held in Niantic Correctional Facility for next three months before the murder as a result of a violation of her probation, and was then released to an in-patient substance abuse rehabilitation facility. Reports state that Birden asked her boyfriend for his knife and then left his house to find Holly stating "I have to end this tonight." Witnesses say Heather arrived and the two began to fight, ending in Holly being stabbed in the head and neck at a crosswalk outside an apartment complex in Torrington, CT.  Her friends rushed her to the hospital where she died.  Heather was hiding under a vehicle a short distance away and feigned confusion when police found her. She spen...
10 comments
Read more

Brenda Andrew Execution date

     Brenda Andrew is the only woman on Oklahoma death row. She is there for the murder of her husband by her and her boyfriend James Pavatt.      Brenda does not answer letters. It seems she may still have a bit of that pretentious attitude left over from her days as a respected deacons wife. Those days are over, hun.      There is no scheduled execution date for Brenda yet. Oklahoma lists its dates of execution for the prison she is in here .      Every time I read about this case I am utterly amazed at how stupid these two people were. She may as well have advertised their guilt on a billboard in front of the house. Both Andrew's and Pavatt's appeal were systematically denied without comment in 2008. The little Scorned episode "The Sunday School Killers" at the top of this post is about Brenda and James and its only $1.99 so its worth the money. Appearance White Female; 5 ft. 3 in. tall; 110 pounds; Bro...
74 comments
Read more