How many females are on death row in Texas? Who was the last female executed in Texas?

In Texas, there are seven women on death row. Three of them have been there for over a decade. Their cases are still being appealed, but the options for appeal are dwindling. Although it is impossible to predict when one of the women will be executed, one will likely be set soon.

Karla Faye Tucker was a woman from the United States who was sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a robbery. She was the first woman executed in the United States since North Carolina’s Velma Barfield in 1984, the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863 and the last to be executed.

After 14 years on death row, she was convicted of murder in Texas in 1984 and executed by lethal injection. Because of her gender and widely publicised conversion to Christianity, she sparked an unusually large national and international movement calling for her sentence to be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.