Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998

Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
Title Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998 PDF eBook
Author Kathleen A. O'Shea
Publisher Praeger
Pages 440
Release 1999-02-28
Genre Law
ISBN

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Studies criminal cases from throughout the twentieth century in which women have been given the death penalty.

Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998

Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
Title Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998 PDF eBook
Author Kathleen O'Shea
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 430
Release 1999-02-28
Genre Law
ISBN 0313024995

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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.

Women and Capital Punishment in the United States

Women and Capital Punishment in the United States
Title Women and Capital Punishment in the United States PDF eBook
Author David V. Baker
Publisher McFarland
Pages 439
Release 2015-12-07
Genre History
ISBN 0786499508

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The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. The book includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in potentially capital cases and a profile of the current female death row population.

The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle

The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle
Title The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle PDF eBook
Author James W. Marquart
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 300
Release 2010-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0292773277

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In late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the gallows. Of 520 convicted capital offenders sentenced to die between 1923 and 1972, 361 were actually executed, thus maintaining Texas’ traditional reputation as a staunch supporter of capital punishment. This book is the single most comprehensive examination to date of capital punishment in any one state, drawing on data for legal executions from 1819 to 1990. The authors show persuasively how slavery and the racially biased practice of lynching in Texas led to the institutionalization and public approval of executions skewed according to race, class, and gender, and they also track long-term changes in public opinion up to the present. The stories of the condemned are masterfully interwoven with fact and interpretation to provide compelling reading for scholars of law, criminal justice, race relations, history, and sociology, as well as partisans on both sides of the debate.

Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death
Title Kiss of Death PDF eBook
Author John D. Bessler
Publisher
Pages 224
Release 2003
Genre Law
ISBN

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Documents the life stories of death-row prisoners and the author's experiences as a pro bono attorney on Texas death penalty cases to present arguments for the abolishment of state-sanctioned executions.

The Case Against the Death Penalty

The Case Against the Death Penalty
Title The Case Against the Death Penalty PDF eBook
Author Hugo Adam Bedau
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1984
Genre Capital punishment
ISBN 9780914031017

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Executions in the United States, 1608-1987

Executions in the United States, 1608-1987
Title Executions in the United States, 1608-1987 PDF eBook
Author M. Watt Espy
Publisher Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Pages 124
Release 1987
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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This study furnishes data on executions performed in the United States under civil authority. It includes a description of each individual executed and the circumstances surrounding the crime for which the person was convicted. Variables include age, race, name, sex, and occupation of the offender, place, jurisdiction, date and method of execution and the crime for which the offender was executed.