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The penalty is death : U.S. newspaper coverage of women's executions /
"In "The Penalty Is Death," Marlin Shipman examines the shifts in press coverage of women's executions over the past one hundred and fifty years. Since the colonies' first execution of a woman in 1632, about 560 more women have had to face the death penalty. Newspaper respon...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Murdered family members and other schemes. Ch. 1. viragos and unnatural mothers: Nineteenth-century mothers
- Ch. 2. The demons decline: Twentieth-century mothers
- Ch. 3. Husbands and other family members
- Ch. 4. Other schemes
- Part II. Jazz journalism and the execution story as drama. Ch. 5. Excesses in 1920s Louisiana
- Ch. 6. Female mass murderers in the late 1930s
- Ch. 7. Execution stories as serial dramas. Part III. Race, ethnicity, and sexual preference. Ch. 8. Pre-civil war press and slave executions
- Ch. 9. Twentieth-century Black defendants
- Ch. 10. The Irish: More animal than human?
- Ch. 11. Sexual preference: Changes during the past fifty years. Part IV. Hollywood, female "tough guys," and love triangles. Ch. 12. Southern California defendants
- Ch. 13. The female "tough guy"
- Ch. 14. Little attention for "first" executions.
- Ch. 15. Love triangles
- Ch. 16. Little support for changes to execution laws
- Ch. l7. Government secrecy of executions under federal authority. Part V. The late 1990s and beyond. Ch. 18. The high-tech media at the end of the twentieth century.