Kathleen O'Shea

Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313024993
• Artikelnr.: 37818901

Autorenporträt

KATHLEEN A. O'SHEA is a social worker who does criminal justice research on female prisoners with a focus on women and the death penalty. She is the editor of Female Offenders: An Annotated Bibliography published by Greenwood Press in 1996.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface History and Execution of Women Alabama: Electrocution
Arizona: Gas/Lethal Injection Arkansas: Electrocution/Lethal Injection
California: Gas/Lethal Injection Connecticut: Lethal Injection Delaware:
Lethal Injection/Hanging Federal Jurisdiction Florida: Electrocution
Georgia: Electrocution Idaho: Lethal Injection/Firing Squad Illinois:
Lethal Injection Indiana: Lethal Injection Kentucky: Electrocution
Louisiana: Lethal Injection Maryland: Gas/Lethal Injection Massachussetts:
No Death Penalty Mississippi: Gas/Lethal Injection Missouri: Lethal
Injection Nevada: Lethal Injection New Jersey: Lethal Injection New York:
Lethal Injection North Carolina: Gas/Lethal Injection Ohio: Gas/Lethal
Injection Oklahoma: Lethal Injection Pennsylvania: Lethal Injection South
Carolina: Lethal Injection/Electrocution Tennessee: Electrocution Texas:
Lethal Injection Virginia: Lethal Injection Vermont: No Death Penalty
Appendixes Bibliography Index