Legal Executions in New England
Title | Legal Executions in New England PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Allen Hearn |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2015-08-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1476608539 |
Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to death more than 700 men and women for a wide variety of capital crimes ranging from army desertion to murder. This is a companion volume to Legal Executions in New York State and Legal Executions in New Jersey, both published by McFarland. It is comprised of chronologically arranged biographical entries for the executed persons. Each entry gives personal data on the executed person, including age, ethnicity, and gender, as well as a detailed account of the crime for which he or she was sentenced to death and information on the place and method of execution. Fully indexed.
Legal Executions in New Jersey
Title | Legal Executions in New Jersey PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Allen Hearn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
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"This book chronicles use of the death penalty by civil and military authorities in what is now the state of New Jersey. All documented executions conducted in or by the state from 1691 through 1963 are covered here in chronological order"--Provided by publisher.
Legal Executions in New York State
Title | Legal Executions in New York State PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Allen Hearn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Executions and executioners |
ISBN | 9780786432479 |
On August 5, 1639, Gregory Peterson, a soldier at the Fort Amsterdam garrison, was executed by a firing squad for an unknown act of mutiny. Peterson was the first person known to be executed in what was to become New York. All known executions conducted in or by the estate of New York from 1639 through 1963 are covered here. In 1963 the last execution occurred before the state formally abolished the death penalty in 1965 (and reinstated it in 1995). Arranged chronologically, each entry includes the executed person's name and race, and the crime for which he or she was sentenced to death. This is followed by details of the crime and information on the place and method of execution.
Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911
Title | Legal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911 PDF eBook |
Author | R. Michael Wilson |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2010-04-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786456337 |
This reference work contains details of all the crimes resulting in executions in the fifteen western American territories. For each territory, entries are arranged chronologically and entered under the name of the condemned. Each entry provides the date, location, background and actions of the crime; details of the trial and execution of sentence; and references to the crime and execution in contemporary newspapers.
Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
Title | Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Rogers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Law |
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For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder. This book offers an account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts.
Capital Punishment in Japan
Title | Capital Punishment in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Petra Schmidt |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9789004124219 |
This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.
Until You are Dead
Title | Until You are Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Drimmer |
Publisher | Carol Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
"Recounts in human terms the extraordinary true stories of the most noteworthy men and women we have executed--the crimes of misfortunes that brought them to that pass and, above all, how they faced death."--Jacket.