Women who have been executed were all convicted murders. Some killed their partners and some kill for no reason. As a result, when women commit murder, they are most likely to kill the people closest to them. Rosalind Bentley from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, notes that “[m]ost people who commit crimes do them when they are young. For a woman standing in front of a jury, particularly if she is very young and has children, or if she herself has been the victim of abuse, she could seem a more likely candidate for rehabilitation than a man accused of the same crime” (Bentley). Like Kelly Gissendaner, who became the only woman on death row in Georgia, after planning her husband’s murder, then directing her lover to carry it out. The article
