Only 511 female offenders have been executed in the U.S. since 1608; these constitute less than 3 percent of the total number of executions. Of the 232 offenders executed since the Supreme Court Furman decision in 1972, only one has been a woman. The annual rate of death sentences for female offenders has remained constant at around five, representing 2 percent of the annual total. Of the 99 women sentenced to death since 1973, 61 have had their sentences reversed or commuted to life imprisonment; 34 women (with 37 sentences imposed on them) remain on death row. These 34 offenders constitute 1.2 percent of the total death row population and 0.07 percent of the female inmate population in the U.S. 3 tables and 2 appendixes