Erica Sheppard

In 1993, Sheppard and her companion murdered a woman with a butcher knife and 
a 10-pound statue in Houston, Texas, during an attempt to steal her car. She 
asked that all appeals on her behalf be suspended, but just weeks before her 
April 1998 execution date, the 24-year-old mother of three changed her mind. 
She would have been the first black woman to be executed since 1976. 


http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/deathrow/deathrow_women.html