Woman Condemned

Arkansas Executed Women- Lavinia Burnett

2012-02-07T14:32:00.000-08:00

Lavinia Burnett was the first woman executed by the state of Arkansas in 1845. She was accused and convicted of the murder of a neighbor who was known to have large sums of cash in his home. Like most women on death row ever since, Lavina did not murder Johnathon Sibley. Her son John and her nephew were the killers but Lavinia and her husband Crawford knew about and went to participate.

2012-02-04T10:54:00.000-08:00

Oklahoma Mother, 18, Kills Intruder Breaking Into Her Home While on Phone With 911: ABCNEWS.COM - 911 operator told young mother she could not shoot until man entered her home. video platform video management video solutions video player

2012-02-02T05:38:00.000-08:00

Readers recommend books to me all the time. Lately the buzz among my readers has been a Kindle Single called Conjugal Visits. It is the story of a woman who falls for an inmate and begins visiting him. I noticed how this tale has been hitting heart strings of many of the inmate wives and girlfriends I know from Prisontalk so I contacted the writer, Ms. Terry Towers who graciously agreed to give

2012-01-30T14:08:00.000-08:00

Michael Ryan in Nebraska is so horrifying, I couldn't believe it. I accidentally found the information while surfing for info on the women on death row. I became interested because he sounded so much like Manson and the girls. he lived tucked away from society with a group that looked up to him and prepared along with him for an Armageddon that was to begin in the form of a race war. Hello

History Teacher

2012-01-30T13:30:00.001-08:00

Thanks for the post from Rashad Townsend My brother teaches history at our local community college. He just loves to talk about history all the time. I don’t know where he got that because there is no one else in our family that is the least bit interested in history. I was talking on the phone to my sister-in-law the other day, and she said that she can never watch television because my

Bernina Mata- The Rabid Lesbian

2012-01-28T09:39:00.001-08:00

EQUALITY: THE DYKIER, THE BUTCHER, THE BETTER: THE STATE'S USE OF HOMOPHOBIA AND SEXISM TO EXECUTE WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: The case of Bernina Mata reminds me so much of Aileen Wornous. She was a lesbian who killed a man she met in a bar one night. Her defense was that it was self defense, that he attacked her and she stabbed him to keep from being killed. The prosecutions case was- get

Upcoming Executions and Nicholas Tate- GA Condemned

2012-01-28T07:40:00.000-08:00

So far, none of the women on death row are scheduled for execution in 2012, 2013 or 2014. Neither are any of the men I write to. I feel relatively safe for now. Of those who are scheduled for 2012, there is Nicholas Tate. He is volunteering to be executed on January 31, 2012 for the murder of a young woman and the sexual assault and murder of her 3 year old daughter. His two brothers, 18 and 15

2012-01-27T10:43:00.000-08:00

Are you into this Kindle Singles thing? I love it. The true crime singles are like episodes of 48 Hours: Investigates crammed into a Kindle. My newest favorite is below. Its the last statements of some of Texas executed inmates. It also gives case histories and facts.

Miss America 2012

2012-01-15T10:35:00.000-08:00

This chick is awesome.She has the most unique platform any potential Miss America has ever worked for. She founded a nonprofit to help children of inmates, Circles of Support. Heres to her doing so much more inthe futre. How amazing that she stepped up to share her own experience when her father was incarcerated. Bravo Laura Kaeppeler!

2012-01-14T06:15:00.000-08:00

Woman accused of killing grandmother gets $1M bond | www.newstalkradiowhio.com: Aisha Sanders, 24, has beaten her grandmother to death because of her crack addiction. They have given her a 1$M bond, which is to say, she wont be bonded. This happened in Ohio which does have the death penalty but I don't think she would be eligible because it wasn't premeditated. We shall see.

Wife of Serial Killer Shares Life Story

2012-01-04T15:08:00.000-08:00

Guest book Review A significant part of many of the popular TV drama shows dwells on the psychological background of the "unidentified subject" who has committed heinous crimes. One of my favorite shows was Profile and the primary activity of the main character was to analyze who, why, and what is making this individual act as he/she does. I wonder how that main character would have discussed

2012-01-02T09:57:00.001-08:00

Should the Death Penalty Return in Michigan?: MyFoxDETROIT.com

2011-12-31T11:37:00.000-08:00

The first new woman on death row in 2012 will most likely be Virginian Lorie Ann Taylor Keller of Fulks Run. She is charged in the 2009 murders of an entire West Virginia family after which she tried to convince her husband, Nakia Keller, to commit suicide in order to make it look like he was the one fully responsible. The family was that of her ex-husband, Chip Taylor, his wife and their 5 year

Did you know they have sales at Publix?

2011-12-31T10:33:00.001-08:00

Guest post of the week by Brittany Booker Everyone knows that in this day and age everyone is out to save money. It is no secret that our country has been in a recession for the past year or so. So for the past year I have starting being a coupon and deal shopper. I will make my grocery list based on what I can find on sale that week. I will see something I want at a store but I won’t buy it

2011-12-29T08:13:00.000-08:00

This episode of Wicked Attraction played today on I.D. I was impressed with how much actual footage of her they showed. They also showed many pictures that I hadn't seen before and that's always cool. I do write to Kelly but its been a while. She is hard to write to because she has a really short memory or at least a short attention span. She forgets what we've talked about from

2011-12-19T16:01:00.000-08:00

So I found this Amazon Single called Mom the Killer. I cant figure out if it is fiction or nonfiction. It seems virtually impossible to have the outcome that happened here. I don't want to be a spoiler so I wont say but I will say that if its true the punishment does not fit the crime. If this is true it reminds me a lot of the Knox lady that killed several of her daughters and made the other

2011-12-19T08:30:00.000-08:00

One of the best things about being a blogger is the many great brands that are interested in your opinion and experiences. I love it when a brand is so interested in reaching your demographic they take time and make an effort to see what it is they can offer you, what you feel would be helpful and then go out and do it. That's what happened with Crest and Oral-B. They truly want to make kids

2011-12-13T09:22:00.000-08:00

Oregon Governor Kitzhaber announced in November that he's halting all executions. That means that Angela McAnulty will not be executed any time soon. The moratorium makes little difference in Angela's case anyway as she is fresh to the row and still has years of appeals yet ahead of her. Jeanette Maples, Angela McAnulty Sentenced To Death For The Slaughter Of Her Daughter. « unforgottenangels:

2011-12-08T10:49:00.000-08:00

Lend Your Voice to the Silenced Inmates are veritable mutes. They can talk but it is like the dead speaking. Only those who know how to listen can hear them. It doesn't matter who you were before, or how much money you had, or whose parties you went to or if you won a Nobel prize- you are now a member of the sole society to start everyone at the very bottom rung of the societal ladder.

2011-12-03T13:19:00.000-08:00

Female Serial Killers... One of the rarest creatures in the criminal world is the female serial killer. Male serial killers are, unfortunately a common events. The hunt at the moment in the United States for more than 45 suspected victims of the latest serial killer, Robert Charles Browne, is a case in point. By comparison, female serial killers and what motivates them remain a mystery. Now

2011-12-01T06:33:00.000-08:00

There was a time when inmates were considered to be little more than subhuman slaves of the state by the criminal justice system. Judges once maintained that prisoners had no rights and thus could not do anything to impede their punishment, no matter how cruel and life threatening. The courts maintained that prisoners had given up these rights when they committed the crimes that put them in jail

2011-11-26T06:29:00.001-08:00

The latest letter from Shonda Johnson was very typical of her. She talked more about the issues going on in my life than in her own. She is a very kind woman and this has always been my experience with her. She and I have been writing since 2002 and she has never failed to be honest, open and genuinely caring. Some very savvy and passionate law students have taken on her case and relentlessly

2011-11-23T15:35:00.000-08:00

Guest Post from Softheart at www.prisontalk.com forums. WOMEN ON DEATH ROW You may want to write to one of the 50 women on death row in the USA, because: many have been abused sexually, physically, and mentally all their lives. Added to this is the often brutal, abusive, degrading, and inhuman treatment by prison guards and officials. A third of the women surveyed said that corrections officers

2011-11-23T05:09:00.000-08:00

Oregon governor blocks executions for rest of term - CNN.com:Wow, just wow. I have so much respect for Oregon's Gov. He has stopped all executions during the remainder of his term saying "It is time for Oregon to consider a different approach. I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer; and I will not allow further executions while I am governor," This article

2011-11-21T14:42:00.001-08:00

Upcoming Texas Female Executions 2012 may be the final year for many of Texas's death row women. The cases of several of them are near the final review. Suzanne Margaret Basso, Linda Carty and Cathy Lynn Henderson may all draw their last breath next year. Suzanne Basso is convicted of murdering an elderly, handicapped man. She met him at a church carnival and eventually got him moved in