Death Row Women
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Death Row Women
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Author : Mark Gado
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2007-11-30
Death Row Women written by Mark Gado and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-30 with Law categories.
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.
Women On Death Row Special
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Author : Mike James
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2005-06-01
Women On Death Row Special written by Mike James and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-01 with Death row inmates categories.
Women On Death Row
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Author : Mike James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Women On Death Row written by Mike James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Capital punishment categories.
Executed Women Of 20th And 21st Centuries
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Author : L. Kay Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2009-06-15
Executed Women Of 20th And 21st Centuries written by L. Kay Gillespie and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Fairer Death
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Author : Victor L. Streib
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Fairer Death written by Victor L. Streib and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Capital punishment categories.
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Women On Death Row
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Author : Mike James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-09-11
Women On Death Row written by Mike James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-11 with Women death row inmates categories.
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.
Women And The Death Penalty In The United States 1900 1998
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Author : Kathleen O'Shea
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-02-28
Women And The Death Penalty In The United States 1900 1998 written by Kathleen O'Shea and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-28 with Law categories.
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 On The Row
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Author : Kathleen A. O'Shea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Women On The Row written by Kathleen A. O'Shea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
"Kathleen O'Shea didn't set out looking for connections with women on death row. She wanted information about them--who they are, the ways in which they live from day to day. "I was writing a sociological reference book," she tells us, "a fairly safe, fairly emotionless endeavor." As she got to know the incarcerated women she was studying, however, what became clear to her were not their differences, but how, in so many ways, she and the women in prison were the same. Arguably, Kathleen O'Shea is the only person to have contacted every woman currently in U.S. prisons with a death sentence. Women On The Row: Revelations From Both Sides of the Bars is her honest, startling, sometimes raw, sometimes radiant exploration of the places where doing heavy time and being free overlap. Neither a treatise against the death penalty, nor an apologia for female innocence, Women On The Row focuses on the interconnectedness of women's lives. The author creates memorable composite portaits of ten death row women based on her conversations with them, on information that has been given to her, and juxtaposes vignettes from her own life "outside" for a call and response across realities. She reflects on her encounters with condemned women and how their stories illuminate her own. In the process she gives us creative nonfiction with the power to challenge deeply held assumptions."--BOOK JACKET.
The Penalty Is Death
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Author : Marlin Shipman
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2002
The Penalty Is Death written by Marlin Shipman and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
In 1872 Susan Eberhart was convicted of murder for helping her lover to kill his wife. The Atlanta Constitution ran a story about her hanging in Georgia that covered slightly more than four full columns of text. In an editorial sermon about her, the Constitution said that Miss Eberhart not only committed murder, but also committed adultery and "violated the sanctity of marriage." An 1890 article in the Elko Independent said of Elizabeth Potts, who was hanged for murder, "To her we look for everything that is gentle and kind and tender; and we can scarcely conceive her capable of committing the highest crime known to the law." Indeed, at the time, this attitude was also applied to women in general. By 1998 the press's and society's attitudes had changed dramatically. A columnist from Texas wrote that convicted murderess Karla Faye Tucker should not be spared just because she was a woman. The author went on to say that women could be just as violent and aggressive as men; the idea that women are defenseless and need men's protection "is probably the last vestige of institutionalized sexism that needs to be rubbed out."
Wretched Sisters
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Author : Mary Welek Atwell
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Wretched Sisters written by Mary Welek Atwell and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Law categories.
Reflects how the criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particular gendered context. Atwell offers an analysis of the legal and popular cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death, and provides an account of how eleven came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment. From publisher description.