Capital punishment and whether or not the death penalty should be used in the American legal system remains a highly controversial topic, still widely debated as to whether or not it is a death sentence. ethical means of penance for convicted criminals. While 1,369 people have been executed under this law since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, only 14 women are among these figures. The disproportionate statistics of women executed in the United States compared to men executed sheds light on whether or not the American legal system imposes gender discrimination in its decision to sentence criminals to the death penalty, favoring and granting more pity women over men. The eighth law that can cause a crime to be considered a capital crime is “the person murders an individual under the age of six”. (Pèlerin 06) Prolonged media attention to cases of capital crimes committed by women gives rise to extreme bias and causes the judge or jury to neglect the real case. This is reflected in the circumstances of the 2008 disappearance and murder case of Caylee Anthony, the alleged killer who was the child's own mother, Casey Marie Anthony. Casey Anthony, the mother of his daughter Caylee Anthony, then aged three, allegedly murdered her daughter in order to avoid her parental responsibilities. Although an overwhelming amount of evidence supports the claims and beliefs that Casey Anthony was in fact the perpetrator of the murder, including forensic data linking the child's decomposition remains to Anthony's car at the time of the child's disappearance, and the FBI obtained data including Google search terms including the methods involved in Caylee's murder from a middle of paper......these results. The question of whether or not there is discrimination, in this case particularly gender equality, in determining the execution of convicted criminals raises the question of whether capital punishment should always be applied as a as a viable means of penance in the country's correctional system. and the justice system at all. Although some may disagree on the validity of these statements, it needs to be thought through and resolved whether there is a problem facing the American legal system and how it should be addressed. This is where checks and balances should come in. To eliminate sexism in the death penalty, we must try to destroy all gender biases. Having a committee approve whether or not a criminal should be sentenced to death outside of the judge and jury could be the way to end this apparent gender discrimination..