article_snippet: Not since Lena Baker, an African-American convicted of murder and pardoned decades later, has Georgia executed a woman.
article_snippet: According to the Death Penalty Information Center: .
article_snippet: Between 1973 and 2012 -- the most recent data available -- 178 death sentences were imposed upon female offenders.
article_snippet: These sentences constitute about 2% of all death sentences.
article_snippet: Five states -- North Carolina, Florida, California, Ohio and Texas -- account for over half of all such sentences.
article_snippet: As of December 31, 2012, there were 61 women on death row.
article_snippet: Women on death row range in age from 28 to 79.
article_snippet: Women on death row range in age from 28 to 79 have been on death row from a few months to over 26 years.
article_snippet: Currently the only woman on Georgia's death row, Gissendaner would be the second woman in the state's history to be executed.
article_snippet: The first was Baker, an African-American maid who was sentenced to death by an all-white, all-male jury in 1944.
article_snippet: Such pardons are rare, but so are executions of women.
article_snippet: According to the Death Penalty Information Center, only 15 women have been executed in the United States since 1977.