The Women's Executions Database

Presented here is a dataset containing all known executions of women carried out under civil authority. Many studies that mention gender use a dataset that estimates that about 365 women were executed in the U.S. between 1608 and 2002. The number of women executed in the U.S. since the 1600s is, in fact, higher than 700. The goal is to produce a dataset that encompasses experiences most relevant to women (e.g., histories of trauma, parenthood) in addition to providing variables that will allow for evidence-based quantitative research. Until I have completed my application with zenodo, please refer to the larger project in which the data are housed: The women's executions project.