PHOTOS: Women on death row. Thirty-eight-year-old Lisa Ann Coleman was executed in Texas today, 10 years following her conviction for the murder of her girlfriend's son
PHOTOS: Women on death row.
Lisa Ann Coleman, left, and Wendi Andriano, right, are two notable women who have served on death row. Coleman was executed Wednesday night in Texas.
Coleman was be the sixth woman put to death in Texas since the state reenacted the death penalty in 1982 according to the Death Penalty Information center, and the second woman put to death in 2014 in the U.S. alone. Death row executions for females are quite rare. According to the Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, only 14 female inmates have been executed since the Supreme Court lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in 1976. That encompasses just 1.01 percent of the 1,385 executions performed in the United states since the moratorium was lifted.
Women on death rowShawna Forde was sentenced to death after killing Raul Flores and his daughter Brisenia in February 2011. Forde was active in the anti-illegal immigration community.
Women on death rowCathy Lynn Henderson was sentenced to death row after she abducted and murdered three-month-old Brandon Baugh in January 1994.
Manling Williams was charged and convicted with three counts of homocide for the murders of her husband and two sons in September 2012
Blanche Moore was convicted of poisoning and killing her husband with arsenic in October 1986.
Take a look at the galery above to see some of the notable, rare female inmates serving death row sentences in the United State
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