Women and capital punishment in the United States : an analytical history / David V. Baker.

By:

Baker, David V

Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2015]Description: viii, 430 pages ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780786499502 (softcover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

364.66082/0973 23

LOC classification:

HV8699.U5 B35 2015

Summary: "This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. Includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in capital cases and profile of female death row population"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. Includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in capital cases and profile of female death row population"-- Provided by publisher.