Not many people have ever heard of a women being put to death through the American justice system. Researchers argue that women usually tend to commit less serious offenses than men, but many also say that courts do not convict women to the extent of the lethal injection or electrocution. Most people refuse to convict women of such a punishment due to the fact that it is proven that men have a much more violent nature. Whatever the reason, women have a much smaller conviction rate that men and the public is not aware of it. Most almost never hear of women being executed, since only about forty have been executed in the past one hundred years.
The Death Penalty states that only about two percent of the total people executed in the United States have been women. That is an extremely small number considering women are arrested for ten percent of all murders. That does not necessarily mean that the numbers should be the same for the amount arrested and the number executed, due to cases being judged case by case, but in my opinion they should closely correlate. These statistics prove that the numbers do not really match up.
Is this a coincidence, or is it the result of some time of injustice? What do you think is the cause of such possible injustice?
This is very true but never really occured to me until I read this post. Women to be just are not thought of as violent except for the extreme cases. I think that women just automatically are not sentenced to death because most people do not imaine a women being that bad of a murder. Maybe just murder their husbands because of self defense but nothing more. Women in general seem more innocent and less harmful and in my opinion that is why they are sentenced to death less.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading this post it made me think of how the death penalty is not the only way that women get off easily when committing crimes. When it comes to statutory rape, if a woman is the defendant, they usually get a lesser sentence. Many say it is because "women can't 'rape' boys", even though they do the same thing that a man might have done with a girl. Maybe the two injustices could be related because they both have to do with women getting different legal treatment in convictions.
ReplyDeleteThis is extremely true, and it has never really occurred to me nor have I even truly thought about it until I read this post. The typical stereotype of women is nurturing and sensitive, whereas the males are always seen as the more violent human beings and aggressive. Maybe the sentences for women are just based off of the typical stereotypes and in my opinion, that is not fair or equal. United States exemplifies equality and based on the percentages it does not exactly show that, but maybe the percentages just show that the stereotypes are accurate.
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention it, I can't remember ever hearing about a woman being executed in the United States. Yes, men are a lot more violent than women, but women can be violent as well. If women want the same rights as men, then should people really worry about women being executed just because it is a woman? This question seems to bother me since a crime that serious is still a crime and to be quite honest, the consequences should be the same regardless.
ReplyDeleteI honestly can not think of a single woman being executed in my life time, but can rattle off a hand full of men. I feel like it is injustice. If a woman commits a murder that would normally recieve the death penalty then they should recieve it. aI am wondering if it is because of the type of murder, and also how they act in the court room. When tend to be more apologetic, the author in the link below states that most woman say that they committed there crime "in a time of weakness." This may give the jusry a reason to sympathize for the female criminal.
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