death sentences and executions in the United States and Canada
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Segrave, Kerry
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2008
- Thesaurus
- strafrecht, daders, gedetineerden, sterven, Verenigde Staten, Canada, 1850-1899
- Description
- This book profiles the lives and cases of women sentenced to capital punishment in the United States during the period 1840 to 1899 and in Canada from its formation as a nation in 1867 through 1899. It also profiles women sentenced to death who were not executed. Some of the women are portrait and others are just listed, specifying age, ethnicity and criminal conviction. In the book attention is given to the debates regarding women and capital punishment, and to the influence of the 1870s women's rights movement.