Killing Women

     The U.S. Government has been blocked from executing a woman on Federal Death row.

Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed on December 8 after she was convicted in 2004 of strangling to death a Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, cutting the baby out and kidnapping it. The baby survived.

The execution date this month was postponed by the court because two of Montgomery's lawyers, who were planning to seek clemency for her, fell ill with coronavirus. (From a CNN story.)

     Alabama mostly has executed men since 1812...only 18 of the 708 people executed were women. And all but the last two women were black. 

     The first woman executed in Alabama was an enslaved woman:

"Patsy, a slave owned by Gorman, was the first female in Alabama hanged on June 10, 1825 for murder committed in Perry County."

     Virtually all of the women executed in early Alabama history were enslaved.

 

     The last electrocution of a woman was 63 years ago---  48-year-old murderess Rhonda Martin died in the "Big Yellow Mama" electric chair on January 11, 1957 for a crime committed in Montgomery County, the murders of two husbands and her children by poison.