Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998

by Kathleen A. O'Shea

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027595952X
• ISBN13: 9780275959524
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"