The Penalty Is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions

by Marlin Shipman

In 1872 Susan Eberhart was convicted of murder for helping her lover to kill his wife. The Atlanta Constitution ran a story about her hanging in Georgia that covered slightly more than four full columns of text. In an editorial sermon about her, the Constitution said that Miss Eberhart not only committed murder, but also committed adultery and "violated the sanctity of marriage." An 1890 article in the Elko Independent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826213863
• ISBN13: 9780826213860
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"