as Capital Punishment, as a judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a

serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. Methods of execution include

lethal injection, decapitation, electric chair, hanging, gassing, strangulation, drowning, burning,

crucifixion, impalement, crushing, stoning, shooting by fire squad, disembowelment, and sawing.

Although only two of these methods are used in modern U.S. society (lethal injection and electric

chair), the rest are the product of foreign countries in early ancient times.

In 1976, the Supreme Court reinstated the Death Penalty after a twenty- seven year

recess. Since then 131 women have been sentenced to death, while only ten have been

executed. In total, forty-eight women are awaiting execution in the United States. Women

10 percent of other nationalities of women have been offenders in death penalty cases. The

Block in Alabama on May 10, 2002, and Aileen Wuornos in Florida on October 9, 2002.

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