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Author | : Kathleen A. O'Shea |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1999-02-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Studies criminal cases from throughout the twentieth century in which women have been given the death penalty.
Author | : Gordon Morris Bakken |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0803226578 |
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 to 1958. The fascinating details of these murder trials, documented in court records and embellished newspaper coverage, mirrored the changing public image of women. Although murder was clearly outside the norm for standard female behavior, most women and their attorneys relied on gendered stereotypes and language to create their defense and sometimes to leverage their status in a patriarchal system. Those who could successfully dress and act the part of the victim were most often able to win the sympathies of the jury. Gender mattered. And though the norms shifted over time, the press, attorneys, and juries were all informed by contemporary gender stereotypes.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Crime |
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Author | : L. Kay Gillespie |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2009-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0761845674 |
Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these women as numbers and statistics, this book presents them as human beings. Each of these women had lives, histories, and families. The purpose is not to condone their actions, but to suggest that those we executed are, in fact, humans—rather than monsters, as they are often portrayed.
Author | : Mark Gado |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007-11-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1573567302 |
During the 20th century, only six women were legally executed by the State of New York at Sing Sing Prison. In each case, the condemned faced a process of demonization and public humiliation that was orchestrated by a powerful and unforgiving media. When compared to the media treatment of men who went to the electric chair for similar offenses, the press coverage of female killers was ferocious and unrelenting. Granite woman, black-eyed Borgia, roadhouse tramp, sex-mad, and lousy prostitute are just some of the terms used by newspapers to describe these women. Unlike their male counterparts, females endured a campaign of expulsion and disgrace before they were put to death. Not since the 1950s has New York put another woman to death. Gado chronicles the crimes, the times, and the media attention surrounding these cases. The tales of these death row women shed light on the death penalty as it applies to women and the role of the media in both the trials and executions of these convicts. In these cases, the press affected the prosecutions, the judgements, and the decisions of authorities along the way. Contemporary headlines of the era are revealing in their blatant bias and leave little doubt of their purpose. Using family letters, prison correspondence, photographs, court transcripts, and last- minute pleas for mercy, Gado paints a fuller picture of these cases and the times.
Author | : Kathleen O'Shea |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1999-02-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0313024995 |
Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the stories of the women who have been executed and those currently awaiting their fate on death row. This work takes a historical look at women and the death penalty in the United States from 1900 to 1998. It gives the reader a look at the penal codes in the various states regarding the death penalty and the personal stories of women who have been executed or who are currently on death row. As Americans continue to debate the enforcement of the death penalty, the issues of race and gender as they relate to the death penalty are also debated. This book offers a unique perspective to a recurring sociopolitical issue.
Author | : Victor L. Streib |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Capital punishment |
ISBN | : 0821416936 |
Author | : Seth Kotch |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469649888 |
For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state sought to remake its image as modern and business-progressive in the early twentieth century, the question of execution preoccupied lawmakers, reformers, and state boosters alike. In this book, Seth Kotch recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina from its colonial origins to the present. He tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies. Through this lens, Lethal State helps explain not only Americans' deep and growing uncertainty about the death penalty but also their commitment to it. Kotch argues that Jim Crow justice continued to reign in the guise of a modernizing, orderly state and offers essential insight into the relationship between race, violence, and power in North Carolina. The history of capital punishment in North Carolina, as in other states wrestling with similar issues, emerges as one of state-building through lethal punishment.
Author | : Mike James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-09-11 |
Genre | : Women death row inmates |
ISBN | : 9781874358411 |
The sequel to True Crime Library's riveting bestseller, Women on Death Row. Contains 10 new cases of women executed in America since the first book was published. The book also explores the reasons why women kill and summarises the stories that appeared in the first volume.
Author | : Les and Tristan MacDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2017-07-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781519090263 |
There are 45 chapters in Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill on women who have committed murder. Part One: Women Who Kill Their Children features 21 stories on mothers who have murdered their own children. The high profile cases such as Susan Smith and Andrea Yates are here but also some that you may not have heard of. Part Two: Women Who Kill Their Husbands has 10 chapters including the Anti-Freeze Killer and the Black Widow of the Internet. Part Three: More Notorious Murders by Women has eight more cases including A Fatal Attraction and Hell Born Hitchhiker. The book concludes with Part Four: Some Younger Females Who Kill which features six chapters including Girls Just Want To Have Fun and The Killer and His Raven. The book concludes with an overview of postpartum depression/psychosis and munchausen by proxy. The paperback version of Hell Hath No Fury: Women Who Kill includes more than 150 pictures.