The Women on Death Row in Texas
4 min readJun 5, 2019
Women make up less than 3% of the people awaiting execution on Texas. In fact, there are currently only six women on death row in the state most commonly associated with executions.
I am often interested in the details of these cases. What makes one woman who killed her children a candidate for the death penalty when other people who kill their children receive prison sentences? What are the circumstances…