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
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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.

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
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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.

Kiss of Death

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

100 Years of Lynchings

100 Years of Lynchings
Title 100 Years of Lynchings PDF eBook
Author Ralph Ginzburg
Publisher Black Classic Press
Pages 276
Release 1996-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780933121188

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The hidden past of racial violence is illuminated in this skillfully selected compendium of articles from a wide range of papers large and small, radical and conservative, black and white. Through these pieces, readers witness a history of racial atrocities and are provided with a sobering view of American history.

The Death Penalty in American Cinema

The Death Penalty in American Cinema
Title The Death Penalty in American Cinema PDF eBook
Author Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 261
Release 2014-04-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0857734520

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Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence. This book examines the encounter between the legal history of the death penalty in America and its cinematic representations, through a comprehensive narrative and historical view of films dealing with this genre, from the silent era to the present. It addresses central issues including racial prejudice and attitudes towards the execution of women, and discusses how cinema has chosen to deal with them. It explores how such films as Michael Curtiz's 20,000 Years in Sing Sing and Fritz Lang's The Fury, Errol Morris's documentary The Thin Blue Line, John Singleton's Rosewood and Frank Darabont's death-row movie The Green Mile, have helped to shape real historical developments and public perceptions by bringing into sharper relief the legal, social and cultural tensions associated with capital punishment. In the process, Yvonne Kozlovksy-Golan provides the reader with a superb understanding of the complexities of the death penalty through US history.