Lawrence B Goodheart

Female Capital Punishment

From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition in Connecticut

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780367479251
• ISBN-10: 0367479257
• Artikelnr.: 69894809

Autorenporträt

Lawrence B. Goodheart is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Connecticut and is the author or co-editor of eight books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Consorts of Satan 2. Witch Hunt in the Colony of
Connecticut, 1647-1670 3. The Waning of Witchcraft 4. Black Girls and the
Gallows 5. The Peril of Bastard Infanticide 6. The 1846 Murder Statute and
Life in Prison 7. Lydia Sherman, "The Modern Lucretia Borgia" 8. The Female
Exemption after 1900 Epilogue: From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition
during Four Centuries