Dead Woman Walking: Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-1955

by Anette Ballinger

Between 1900 and 1950 130 women were sentenced to death for murder in England and Wales. Only 12 of these women were actually executed. Thus, 91 per cent of women murderers had their sentence commuted, whereas if we examine the corresponding figures for men, only 39 per cent had their sentence commuted. It would appear that state servants working within the criminal justice system were far more reluctant to hang women than men. However, this text...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184014789X
• ISBN13: 9781840147896
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 374 Pages