WOMEN AND DEATH PENALTY

Women and Death Penalty

Women and Death Penalty

Introduction

The death penalty or capital punishment has been on par with humanity, is well known that the Greeks had great cultural influence in Rome, though the Romans were noted for their extensive jurisprudence and those to be great philosophers combination that gave rise to the philosophy of law, hence the regulation of relations between people and state, and subsequent punishment of perpetrators of violations of the laws imposed by the latter (Williams 2007). The Hebrews left a testimony of the existence of this penalty.

Women Sentenced To Death

In February 1998, executed Karla Faye Tucker, she was the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War and the second in the country since the reinstatement of the death penalty. There were strong protests by opponents of the death penalty throughout the country and the world. Even the Christian Fascists and the pope asked the pardon because he was a fundamentalist Christian. But Texas Gov. George Bush (who may run for the presidency), he would not do so and stated: “I think our system gives fair treatment to those sentenced to death. In June 1998, 43 dams in 15 states were in the row to death, 11 of them for killing her husband (or hire someone to kill him) and kill four policemen(Walker 2004, p.54).”

Many women were sentenced to death and executed, although it should be noted that the legislature has repeatedly marked a kind of reluctance to engage women to death, especially those involving children (Walker 2004). In most of the 76 countries worldwide that retain the death penalty, the law expressly prohibits its application to pregnant women.

Usually, they are not executed and there are provisions for a post-natal period, below which execution may take place, as is the case for example, in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Egypt, where enforcement is adjourned for a maximum period of two years after the birth of the child. In other countries such as Guinea, Syria and Vietnam, the execution may take place as soon after delivery or after a period of several months (three in Jordan, only two in Libya) (Stauffer 2006). Sometimes, pregnant women can never be sentenced to death, so, among others, Ethiopia, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau and Guatemala. United States, which currently has fifty women under sentence of death, the laws of most states prohibit all executions before the end of pregnancy.

The most frequent charges that lead to the conviction of women to death are drug-related offenses (China, Vietnam) or sex crimes (adultery, sex outside marriage), even abortion as Nigeria. The penalties that are so reserved are particularly cruel: the flogging or stoning, still in force in several countries under the Islamic Sharia. In Iran, the procedure is designed so that death is not caused by a single stone. Article 119 of Islamic Penal Code states: the stones used should not be so large as the person dies after receiving one or two, they should not be either so small that they could ...