The only woman on Idaho death row is seeking to have her sentence reconsidered, but a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week has thrown her active federal appeal into question. Robin Row, 64, ...

Woman on Death Row for 30 Years Has Conviction Overturned After Paid Informant’s Testimony Challenged. Brittany Holberg, 52, remains in custody while a lower court decides how to proceed with ...

A South Side woman, convicted of strangling a 97-year-old woman and suspected of killing two elderly men, was sentenced to death Thursday in Cook County Criminal Court. In imposing the death senten… ...

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The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals court ruled that she received an unfair trial in 1996 after being ...

If Pike is put to death, she would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. The governor generally does not review clemency petitions until after a person's execution date ...

Titusville woman who police said beat, then poured bleach down the mouth of her one-time housekeeper before strangling her with a belt, died on death row J.D. Gallop Florida Today ...

Today, 51 women are on death row, compared with more than 2,000 men. But for those women who do face capital sentencing, a particular kind of disadvantage based on their sex can arise: ...