Historically speaking the numbers of executions in the United States has been one sided for the most part when it comes to gender. Since the 1930's there have been only 32 executions federally of female prisoners where as by the same token men represent the overwhelming majority at 3827 sanctioned executions (Whitehead, & Blankenship, 2000). Further more in examine the sex bias in capital punishment cases it is found that women are far less likely to be arrested for murder as well as receive a death sentence should they ever receive a conviction for murder (Rapaport,1991). The extrapolation that can be gathered from both the quantitative as well as the qualitative evidence as presented by peer review does suggest that there is disparaging
