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Women and the death penalty in the United States, 1900-1998 / Kathleen A. O'Shea ; foreword by Ann Patrick Conrad.
- Title
- Women and the death penalty in the United States, 1900-1998 / Kathleen A. O'Shea ; foreword by Ann Patrick Conrad.
- Author
- O'Shea, Kathleen A.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.
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- Description
- xxiii, 404 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Studies criminal cases from throughout the twentieth century in which women have been given the death penalty.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Women prisoners > United States > History > 20th century > Case studies
- Death row inmates > United States > History > 20th century > Case studies
- Capital punishment > United States > History > 20th century > Case studies
- Executions and executioners > United States > History > 20th century > Case studies
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- History
- Case studies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-389) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- History and the execution of women ; Alabama: electrocution -- Arizona: gas/lethal injection -- Arkansas: electrocution/lethal injection -- California: gas/lethal injection -- Connecticut: gas/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 -- Massachusetts: no death penalty -- Mississippi: gas/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 -- Tennessee: electrocution/lethal injection -- Texas: lethal injection -- Vermont: no death penalty -- Virginia: lethal injection -- Appendices : A. Women on death row, 1998 ; B. Women with death sentences by state ; C. Length of time of death row ; D. Women's death sentences since 1900 ; E. Ages of women on death row, 1998.
- ISBN
- 027595952X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^98023550^
- OCLC
- 39013837
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library