Women on Death Row
Guivevere Garcia was ready to become the second woman to be executed in recent history. Unlike many death inmates, she had given up all appeals and waited to be executed by lethal injection. "This is not a suicide. I am not taking my own life. I committed these crimes. I am responsible for these crimes," she told the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. Garcia, a former prostitute, has been on death row for the 1991 murder of her husband and one-time client. Hours before her scheduled execution on January 17, 1996, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar granted her clemency.)
3 women have been executed since 1976.
There were 48 women on death row in 16 states as of July 1, 1998:
Alabama (4)
Arizona (1)
California (7)
Florida (6)
Idaho (1)
Illinois (4)
Indiana (1)
Louisiana (1)
Mississippi (1)
Missouri (2)
Nevada (1)
North Carolina (2)
Oklahoma (5)
Pennsylvania (4)
Tennessee (1)
Texas (6)
Source: Death Penalty Information Center
