American female murderers

Melanie Lyn McGuire is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the "Suitcase Murder". She was sentenced to life in prison, on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She will not be eligible for parole until she is 101 years old.

American bank robbers

Assata Olugbala Shakur was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years.

American science fiction writer (1915–1987)

American murderer; member of Charles Manson's "Family"

American bank robber (1910-1934)

American convicted murderer

American murderer who became the first woman to die in the electric chair

American murderer (1929–1990)

American murderer (1895-1928)

convicted murderer

American murderer (1959–1998)

American maid (1901–1945)

convicted murderer (1923-1955)

American model and murderer (1970-2018)

American spree killer

American murderer

American murderer

Christa Gail Pike is an American convicted murderer, and one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death in the United States during the post-Furman period. At 18 years old, Pike tortured her classmate Colleen Slemmer to death. She was convicted at age 20. Pike is set to be executed on September 30, 2026.

American poet (1962-2003)

United States fugitive enslaved person

12-year-old Native American sentenced to death and executed in Connecticut in 1786

American murderer currently on California's death row

American convicted murderer

American internet personality

American murderer (1969–2010)

American criminal

the first transgender woman that was executed in the United States

American doctor, convicted for murder

American murderer, author and speaker

condemned criminal from the United States

Wrongfully convicted of murder in Britain

American murderer (1965–2005)

American serial killer

American murderer (1968–2015)

American dead row inmate

American prisoner

American murderer and human trafficking victim

American leftist activist

American murderer who killed to get money