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7 cases of women executed in the US

Although to a lesser extent, the death penalty has also been applied to some dangerous criminals .Find out who some of these women are and why they received such terrible punishment.

7 cases of women executed in the US

Velma Barfield

This serial killer was executed on November 2, 1984.The reason? Ms.Barfield was a ruthless serial killer .She was convicted of 6 murders and was the first woman executed after the resumption of the death penalty in the United States after 1976.It was also the first woman executed by lethal injection.

2.Suzanne Basso

Suzanne Basso was sentenced in 1998 to the death penalty for torturing and kill a man with a mental disability .

7 cases of women executed in the US

Basso attracted the man to Texas with the promise of marriage.The woman was executed on February 5, 2014.

3.Judy Buenoano

This 54-year-old woman was executed on March 30, 1998 at Starke State Prison in Florida.Buenanoano was known as “the black widow ” after she murdered her husband.Besides, some years before, J udy had been sentenced to prison for killing her paralytic son after throwing him into a lake.

4.Christina Marie Riggs

Christina was executed by injection Lethal on May 2, 2000 after she was found guilty of killing her two young children .Riggs suffocated the two children and then tried to commit suicide but did not succeed.

5.Aileen Wuorno

Aileen was one of the most famous serial killers in the United States. The woman admitted to taking the lives of 7 men .

7 cases of women executed in the US

He was sentenced to death in 1992 and executed 10 years later in Florida State Prison.

6.Frances Newton

Frances was the first woman of color sentenced to death in the state of Texas since 1858.Newton murderer of her esp 23-year-old bear, his son Alton, 7, and his little daughter Farrah, , 21 months.

7.Wanda Jean Allen

Wanda was the first woman to be sentenced to death in Oklahoma. This woman shot several times at her sentimental partner while on probation after killing another friend.

Shocking cases, no doubt, as well as the punishment received. If you are interested in this article, we invite you to read more about: Killer Women (Part I).

Images : Thomas Hawk , World Coalition Against the Death Penalty , NixBC

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