Brenda Andrew: Sex-Shamed to Death in Oklahoma — Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

Brenda Andrew: Sex-Shamed to Death in Oklahoma — Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

Case Background In the United States, most prosecutors typically do not seek the death penalty—and juries do not impose it—unless the crime involves a degree of cruelty or pain that distinguishes it from the thousands of other homicides that are carried out every year. In 2004, Brenda Andrew was convicted of killing her husband for