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The Forgotten Population The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States Through the Experiences of Women American Friends ACLU Service Committee AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION * The Forgotten Population: A Look at Death Row in the United States Through the Experiences of Women Published December 2004 ACLU National Headquarters 125 Broad Street, 18th Fl. Prepared by the American Civil Liberties New York, NY 10004-2400 Union's Capital Pun ishment Project, [212] 549-2500 Women's Rights Project and National www.aclu.org Prison Project, with the National Criminal Justice Program of the American Friends ACLU Capital Punishment Project Service Committee and the National 915 15th Street, NW, 6th Fl. Clearinghouse for the Defense of Washington, DC 20005 Battered Women . ACLU Women's Rights Project ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor Rachel King and Judy Bellin were the prin­ New York, NY 10004 ciple authors of the report and were assist­ ed by: Lenora Lapidus, Namita Luthra, ACLU National Prison Project Elizabeth Alexander, David Fathi, Tonya 733 15th Street NW, Suite 620 McClary and Sue Ostoff. The authors would Washington DC, 20005 also like to acknowledge Ruth Friedman for her ongoing assistance with this project and National Clearinghouse for the Defense Ron Tabak, Dick Dieter and Kate Stewart for of Battered Women reading earlier versions of the report. 125 S. 9th St., Suite 302 Lastly, we would like to acknowledge our Philadelphia, PA 19107 friend and colleague, Diann Rust-Tierney, whose vision made this report a reality. American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice Project THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION is 1501 Cherry St. the nation's premier guardian of liberty, Philadelphia, PA 19102 working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. ACLU AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Nadine Strossen, President Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director Kenneth B. Clark, Chair, Executive American Friends Advisory Council Service Committee Richard Zacks, Treasurer Cover Photo: Rev. Jesse Jackson comforts Oklahoma Death Row inmate Wanda Jean Allen, shortly before her execution. Table of Contents Introduction .... ................................. ..... ............... .. 1 Overview of the Modern Death Penalty ... ... .. ........ .. .. ...............4 Problems of the Death Penalty System ...... .................................5 Social Factors in Death Penalty Cases ...................... ......... .... 9 Life on Death Row .......... .................... ..... ........... 12 Conclusion and Recommendations .......... ...................... ....... 17 Appendix: Case Histories of Some of the Death-Sentenced Women ........... .... 19 THE FORGOTTEN POPULATION 'For six and a half years I've been telling EVERYBODY that I'm innocent, but no one wants to Listen, nor do they care. The media have a horrible name for me - which is murderer. And which is all anyone knows me as. But God knows they are wrong." "It's very hard to Live day after day and not know what to do. When you see what I see and feel what I feel, there's no way out. My sorrow and Loneliness are huge. To be forgotten is the worst." - Voices of women on Death Row in the United States rt THE FORGOTTEN POPULATION: A Look at Death Row in the United States Through the Experiences of Women Program of the American Friends Service Introduction Committee (AFSC) and the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered any researchers and journalists have Women (NCDBW), to look at the experiences 3 studied and written about the United of women on Death Row in the United States. M States death penalty system in the last 30 years. Nearly all of their work has focused To learn about the day-to-day lives of the on the experiences of men. This is not surpris­ women on Death Row, we sent questionnaires ing because men constitute the overwhelming to the lawyers of 47 of the women who were on majority of Death Row prisoners. Since 1973, Death Row between April and November 2002 148 women have been sentenced to death in the and asked them to administer the survey to 4 United States. (See Table 1) As of Dec. 31, their clients. To learn about how they got to 2003, the 48 women on Death Row constituted Death Row, we read court opinions and news­ 1.4% of the total Death Row population of paper articles, interviewed defense attorneys, about 3,500 people and less than 0.1 % of the and reviewed research compiled by NCDBW. approximately 50,000 women in prisons in the Our conclusions regarding the issues in these United States. 1 The women on Death Row women's cases, therefore, are based on many ranged in age from 22 to 73 years old and had sources, some of which were not independent­ been on Death Row for periods ranging from a ly verifiable. Altogether, we looked at the lives few months to nearly 20 years. of 66 women, including 56 women who were on Death Row between April 2002 and To gain a more complete understanding of the December 2003 and ten women who have been death penalty system as it applies to women, executed since 1976. the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Capital Punishment Project, Women's Rights Not surprisingly, we found that the women's Project and National Prison Project undertook experiences in the criminal justice system mir­ a project, with the National Criminal Justice rored the problems that have been documented in the cases of men condemned to death, such as 1 THE FORGOTTEN POPULATION Table 12 Capital Sentences for Women State-By-State Breakdown, Jan. 1, 1973, to June 30, 2004 Total Female Sentences 1 California 8 3 6 0 17 2 North Carolina 10 4 0 2 16 Texas 10 6 0 0 16 4 Florida 11 3 1 0 15 5 Ohio 4 6 0 0 10 6 Alabama 6 3 0 0 9 7 Illinois 1 4 2 0 7 Mississippi 5 2 0 0 7 Oklahoma 6 1 0 0 7 10 Georgia 5 1 0 0 6 Pennsylvania 3 3 0 0 6 12 Missouri 4 0 1 0 5 13 Indiana 2 2 0 0 4 14 Kentucky 3 0 0 0 3 Maryland 1 0 0 2 3 16 New Jersey 3 0 0 0 3 17 Arizona 2 0 0 0 2 Arkansas 2 0 0 0 2 Idaho 2 0 0 0 2 Louisiana 1 1 0 0 2 Nevada 1 1 0 0 2 Tennessee 2 0 0 0 2 23 South Carolina 1 0 0 0 1 Virginia 1 0 0 0 1 2 rt Table i Women Executed Since 1976 . Execution. Methpd , 1 11/2/1984 Velma Barfield w NC Lethal Injection 2 2/3/1998 Karla Faye Tucker w TX Lethal Injection 3 3/30/1998 Judy Buenoano w FL Electrocution 4 2/24/2000 Betty Lou Beets w TX Lethal Injection 5 5/2/2000 Christina Riggs w AR Lethal Injection 6 1/11/2001 Wanda Jean Allen B OK Lethal Injection 7 5/1/01 Marilyn Plantz w OK Lethal Injection 8 12/4/01 Lois Nadean Smith w OK Lethal Injection 9 5/10/02 Lynda Lyon Block w AL Electrocution 10 10/9/02 Aileen Wuomow w FL Lethal Injection inadequate defense counsel not brought out at trial so the jury did not and official misconduct, and take it into account when it sentenced the social problems suffered by woman to death. defendants such as poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse. Further study is needed on the role of abuse in This report focuses mainly on capital cases. We urge researchers to study women, even though men such issues as: How many women were in suffer similar problems. abusive relationships at the time of their crime Marilyn Plantz and did that abuse play a role in the crime? was executed on May 1, 2001 Many of the women whose How many women acted in self-defense or by the State of cases we looked at identi­ defense of another? How many batterers Oklahoma. fied themselves as having coerced women into criminal activity or experienced abuse as chil­ falsely accused women of crimes? dren and as adults. In many cases, there was independent evidence available to veri­ Researchers should examine these questions fy these claims. Sometimes the abuse was in depth. Especially important would be 3 THE FORGOTTEN POPULATION longitudinal studies documenting women's factors that argue against a death sentence. 8 In experiences of abuse throughout their life­ some of the women's cases it appeared that the times. Attorneys defending women in capital lawyers may not have presented evidence of cases should be trained to investigate for abuse the physical or sexual abuse their clients had and to raise that issue at trial. suffered. Such evidence would have given the jury a fuller picture of the defendant and per­ This report is divided into five sections, con­ haps convinced it to spare her life. sisting of: an introduction, an overview of the modem death penalty, and examinations of Although there are many stages of death procedural problems and obstacles faced by penalty litigation, it is difficult on appeal to women in capital trials, social problems that raise new issues that were not raised in the affect women and may have an impact on who original trial. (See Table 3, outlining the death is sentenced to death and living conditions of penalty appellate process.) After conviction women on Death Row. and sentencing, state appellate courts review the trial and sentencing on direct appeal. At this stage, the courts review only issues and evidence presented at the trial. Moreover, if a Overview of the lawyer fails to raise an issue at trial it will usu­ Modern Death Penalty ally not be considered on direct appeal.
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