Texas woman death row refers to the section of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Huntsville Unit that houses female inmates sentenced to death.
As of 2023, there are 53 women on death row in Texas, more than any other state. The majority of these women were convicted of murder, and many have been on death row for decades. The oldest woman on death row in Texas is Suzanne Basso, who was convicted of murdering her husband in 1998 and sentenced to death in 2004. The youngest woman on death row is Kimberly McCarthy, who was convicted of murdering her boyfriend in 2006 and sentenced to death in 2008.
