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Women and Capital Punishment in the United States
Language: en
Pages: 439
Authors: David V. Baker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-26 - Publisher: McFarland

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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 punishme
Female Capital Punishment
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Lawrence B. Goodheart
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

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"This book is the first to systematically investigate the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States during nearly four cent
Uncertain Justice
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: F. Murray Greenwood
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-10-01 - Publisher: Dundurn

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In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last.
The Penalty is Death
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Marlin Shipman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press

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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 co
Ugly Prey
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

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Ugly Prey tells the riveting story of poor Italian immigrant Sabella Nitti, the first woman ever sentenced to hang in Chicago, in 1923, for the alleged murder o