Reason 1. Racially motivated violence. Reason 2. Victims of sexual violence. Reason 3. Armed conflicts. Reason 4. Politically motivated. Reason 5. So many more.
Neither parties/gender are immune to specific types of violence. Violence has no gender boundaries.
If new evidence shows that the inmate may most likely free of the charge, then the defendant is taken out of death role and imprisoned until it is sure that the inmate is not part of the act.