Research Catalog

Title

Dancehall ladies : the crimes and executions of America's condemned women / L. Kay Gillespie.

Author

Gillespie, L. Kay.

Publication

Lanham : University Press of America, ©1997.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 122 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Women prisoners > United States > Case studies
• Death row inmates > United States > Case studies
• Capital punishment > United States > Case studies
• Capital punishment
• Death row inmates
• Women prisoners
• Weibliche Gefangene
• Todesstrafe
• Fallstudiensammlung
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies.
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Lethal Injection--The Ultimate High -- North Carolina -- Velma Barfield -- Bessie Mae Williams -- Rosanna Phillips -- Hanging--"Don't hang me high ... for decency sake." -- Arizona -- Eva Dugan -- Vermont -- Mary Rogers -- Louisiana -- Ada LeBoeuf -- Julia Moore -- Delaware -- May Carey -- Mississippi -- Mary Holmes -- Comparison Case -- Winnie Ruth Judd -- The Electric Chair--"This is a step forward in the cause of humanity." -- New York -- Mary Farmer -- Ruth Snyder -- Anna Antonio -- Eva Coo -- Mary Francis Creighton -- Helen Fowler -- Martha Jule Beck -- Alabama -- Selina Gilmore -- Earle Dennison -- Rhonda Belle Martin -- Ohio -- Anna Marie Hahn -- Blanche "Dovie" Dean -- Betty Butler -- Pennsylvania -- Irene Schroeder -- Corrine Sykes -- South Carolina -- Sue Logue -- Rose Marie Stinette -- Virginia -- Virginia Christian -- Illinois -- Marie Porter -- Toni Jo Henry -- Mildred Johnson -- Georgia -- Lena Baker -- Comparison Cases -- Effie Jowers -- Nannie Hazel Doss -- The Gas Chamber--"How in the hell would you know?" -- California -- Juanita Spinelli -- Louise Peete -- Barbara Graham -- Elizabeth Duncan -- Comparison Case: Dr. Alice Wynekoop -- Federal Executions of Women -- Mary Surratt -- Ethel Rosenberg -- Bonnie Brown Heady -- Judith Coplon -- Mildred Gillars -- The Last Two -- Karla Faye Tucker -- Judi Buenoano -- Comparison Case: Guineveve (Guin) Garcia -- Clemencies and Commutations -- What Must a Woman Do to Be Executed? -- Mothers, Their Children and Their Crimes.

ISBN

• 0761806768
• 9780761806769
• 076180675X
• 9780761806752

LCCN

96053026

OCLC

• ocm36135853
• 36135853
• SCSB-2120691

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library