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1 online resource (xi, 336 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317) and index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
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Capital punishment. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Executions and executioners -- Press coverage -- United States -- History.
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Executions and executioners. |
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Press coverage. |
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Women prisoners -- United States -- History.
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Women prisoners. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shipman, Marlin. Penalty is death. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002 0826213863 (DLC) 2002017955 (OCoLC)48870910 |
| ISBN |
0826263054 (electronic book) |
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9780826263056 (electronic book) |
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0826213863 |
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9780826213860 |
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