Wanda Jean Allen who was born on August 17, 1959 was sentenced to death on September 11, 2001 for the 1989 murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29, her longtime girlfriend, in Oklahoma City. In 2001, Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. She was the sixth woman to be executed since 1977, after executions resumed in the United States. hєr вαckgrσund stσrч : 👇 At the age of 12, Allen was hit by a truck and knocked unconscious. At 14 or 15, she was stabbed in the left temple. Testing after this found that Allen's abilities were markedly impaired and that her IQ was 69. Also important was damage that resulted in the left hemisphere of her brain being dysfunctional: this impaired her comprehension, her ability to logically express herself, and her ability to analyze cause and effect relationships. Examiners concluded that Allen was more chronically vulnerable than others to becoming disorganized by everyday stresses, and thus more vulnerable to a loss of control under stress. By age 17, she had dropped out of high school. 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙖’𝙨 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 : 👇 Allen was executed by lethal injection by the State of Oklahoma on Thursday, January 11, 2001 at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. Twenty-four relatives of murder victim Gloria Leathers and manslaughter victim Dedra Pettus traveled there for the execution. Many of them watched the execution from behind a tinted window. While lying on the execution gurney, Allen said, "Father, forgive them. They know not what they do." She also stuck her tongue out and smiled at her appeal lawyer, David Presson, who had become her friend. He says she was "dancing on the mattress, while they tried to kill her." She was pronounced dead at 9:21 p.m. Relatives of Leathers expressed the execution gave them "closure". She was buried at Trice Hill Cemetery in Oklahoma City. #Explore #ViralPost #ViralContent