OKLAHOMA CITY – Quondam Dominicus School teacher Brenda Andrew is the only woman on Oklahoma's death row.

In 2004, she was convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the November. 2001 shooting expiry of her husband, Rob Andrew, according to published reports.  Jurors recommended the death penalty.

Brenda Andrew, Oklahoma Department of Corrections mugshot (2017)

The Court of Criminal Appeals sets execution dates and at this time, the court has not announced a appointment for Andrew's sentence to be carried out, said Josh Ward, Department of Corrections spokesman.

Andrew's lover and boyfriend Sunday School instructor, James Pavatt, was convicted in 2003 of first-caste murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death.  The Court of Criminal Appeals set his execution date for July eleven, 2024.

A month earlier the Nov. 2001 shooting, Rob Andrew reported to police his vehicle brake line had been cut, and he believed Pavatt, his insurance agent, and his wife were trying to kill him for insurance money gain, according to published reports.

The 39-twelvemonth-old advertizing executive was fatally shot in the family's garage on Nov. 20, 2001, while picking up his children for kid visitation. Instead of taking her ii children to their begetter's funeral, Andrew and Pavatt caput to Mexico where they spent almost three months on the run.  The couple was taken into custody at the United mexican states border when they tried to reenter the United States.

Founded in 1990, the Death Penalty Data Center is a national not-profit system serving the media and the public with analysis and data on problems concerning death sentence.

Women are rarely sentenced to death in the United States and executions of women are fifty-fifty more rare, according to Decease Penalty Information Center data. Researchers accept suggested that women who are sentenced to expiry are ofttimes perceived every bit breaking gender norms.

Andrew was known for her habitual affairs.  Her tight-fitting apparel and cleavage exposing shirts were documented during her trial, according to published reports. She had filed for divorce weeks earlier and trial testimony indicated the motivation for the shooting was insurance proceeds, co-ordinate to published reports.

Oklahoma has the 2d-highest land incarceration rate for women in the United States. The Sooner country incarcerates 226 female prisoners, according to 2022 data by Fair Punishment, a legal resouce website. Arkansas is ranked 17th, Missouri is ranked 26th and Kansas is ranked 33rd.

Oklahoma has put four women to death since 1903.

Dora Wright, a blackness adult female, died by hanging in 1903 when Oklahoma was Indian Territory. She was convicted of fatally beating and torturing 7-year-old Annie Williams, a white child.  The victim was purported to be Wright's niece, published reports country.

Since Oklahoma was not a state, Wright'southward fate was in President Theodore Roosevelt's hands.

Roosevelt was quoted in newspapers proverb, "If that woman was mean plenty to practise a matter similar that, she ought to have the nerve to meet her punishment."

Almost a century passed and in 2001, Oklahoma executed three women in the same year.

Wanda Jean Allen, 41, a black woman, was executed on January 2001.  She was the outset black adult female to be executed in the United states since 1954. She was convicted of killing her female girlfriend.

Marilyn Kay Plantz, 40, a white woman, was executed in May 2001 for her role in the killing of her husband, Jim Plantz,  for insurance coin.

Lois Nadean Smith, 61, a white woman, was executed in December 2001 for the murder of her son's ex-girlfriend. "Hateful Nadean" was bedevilled of torturing and killing Cindy Bailee, 21.

Currently, at that place are forty inmates on Oklahoma's Death Row and most of the death-row prisoners' sentences are to be carried out through December 2024, according to the Section of Corrections website.

The country has executed 199 men and three women between 1915 and 2022 at the Oklahoma Country Penitentiary, according to the state's Department of Corrections website.

The concluding execution by electrocution took place in 1966.