Women on death row
While the numbers are still high, women are far less likely to wind up on death row, or be executed, than men.Female
inmates make up just 2 percent of the total death row population with
2,541 men currently awaiting execution, according to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated, 17 women have been executed compared to 1,519 men.So why is there such a big difference in the numbers of men and women given the death penalty? 
While the numbers are still high, women are far less likely to wind up on death row, or be executed, than men.
Female
inmates make up just 2 percent of the total death row population with
2,541 men currently awaiting execution, according to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated, 17 women have been executed compared to 1,519 men.
So why is there such a big difference in the numbers of men and women given the death penalty?
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