United States of America / General - Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women - Death Penalty - February 2025
Date: February 10, 2025
Country: United States of America
Partners: The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Women's Rights
Mechanism: Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
Country: United States of America
Partners: The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Issues: Death Penalty, Women's Rights
Mechanism: Universal Periodic Review
Report Type: Stakeholder Report
This submission aims to demonstrate how gender stereotypes influence the trials of women
accused of capital crimes, leading to violations of their fundamental rights under the CEDAW
Convention1
. It’s primarily based on Sandra Babcock’s forthcoming essay, Gendered Capital
Punishment2
, which explores these issues in depth. Her article draws from the trial transcripts
of the forty-five cisgender women on death row in the United States as of July 1, 2024. In
addition to Sandra Babcock’s essay, this submission draws on reports from the Cornell Center
on the Death Penalty Worldwide (CCDPW) which were built on the basis of information shared
by abolitionist organizations based in countries that retain the death penalty.
