Gwenda Wright News Today

Kyiesha Faulkner's drive to create change was sparked by stories of her grandmother's childhood.

Kyiesha Faulkner's drive to create change was sparked by stories of her grandmother's childhood.

Kyiesha Faulkner's drive to create change was sparked by stories of her grandmother's childhood.

The Pensacola area plays a big role in Floridas Death Row. The first woman to executed was a Gulf Breeze woman, while the 3 women on death row today includes a Pensacola woman.

Many people who are sentenced to death row spend decades awaiting their execution. Under death row, inmates live a lifestyle a bit different than your average prisoner. Here's a looking inside the life of a Florida death row inmate.

Nearly 300 people – 295 – have been sentenced to death and executed in Florida since the first in 1924, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. Of those, two have been women.

Of the seventeen women in Florida who have been sentenced to death, only two have actually been executed according to the Florida Department of Corrections. The earliest account of a woman being sentenced to death dates back to 1926 when a woman was sentenced for killing her husband.