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PHOTOS: Women on death row

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Lisa Ann Coleman, left, and Wendi Andriano, right, are two notable women who have served on death row. Coleman was executed Wednesday night in Texas.

Shawna Forde was sentenced to death after killing Raul Flores and his daughter Brisenia in February 2011. Forde was active in the anti-illegal immigration community.

Cathy Lynn Henderson was sentenced to death row after she abducted and murdered three-month-old Brandon Baugh in January 1994.

Manling Williams was charged and convicted with three counts of homocide for the murders of her husband and two sons in September 2012.

Wendi Andriano was convicted of killing her cancer-stricken husband in October 2000.

Blanche Moore was convicted of poisoning and killing her husband with arsenic in October 1986.

Kimberly Cargill was sentenced to death row in June 2012 after killing a mentally-challenged babysitter named Cherry Walker in Smith County, Texas.

Erica Yvonne Sheppard murdered Marilyn Sage Meagher in June 1993 after trying to steal Meagher's car. She was sentenced to death in March 1995.

Kimberly McCarthy is on death row for murdering a 70-year-old woman in Texas in July, 1997. McCarthy stabbed her victim multiple times and later stole her credit cards and car.

Debra Brown murdered a seven-year-old girl in June 1984. In addition to her death penalty conviction, Brown is also serving a life sentence for another murder in Ohio.

Tina Brown killed 19-year-old Audreanna Zimmerman in Florida in 2010.

Brittany Holberg was convicted for murdering an 80-year-old man in November 1996 by stabbing him 60 times and shoving parts of a lamp down his throat.

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PHOTOS: Women on death rowLisa Ann Coleman, left, and Wendi Andriano, right, are two notable women who have served on death row. Coleman was executed Wednesday night in Texas.

Arizona Department of Corrections / AP

Thirty-eight-year-old Lisa Ann Coleman was executed in Texas today, 10 years following her conviction for the murder of her girlfriend's son, 9-year-old Davontae Williams. Coleman reportedly beat and starved the boy at the time of his death.

Coleman was be the sixth woman put to death in Texas since the state reenacted the death penalty in 1982 according to the Death Penalty Information center, and the second woman put to death in 2014 in the U.S. alone. Death row executions for females are quite rare. According to the Office of the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, only 14 female inmates have been executed since the Supreme Court lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in 1976. That encompasses just 1.01 percent of the 1,385 executions performed in the United states since the moratorium was lifted.

Take a look at the gallery above to see some of the notable, rare female inmates serving death row sentences in the United States.