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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Author's Note; Introduction; 1 A Murder in Burbank; 2 A Life on the Lam; 3 A Femme Fatale on Trial; 4 Crime Doesn't Pay; 5 An Execution in California; 6 Executing Women in America; 7 I Want to Live!; 8 Due Process; 9 Abolishing the Death Penalty; 10 The Ultimate Penalty; Notes; Selected Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story-beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman executed in California-after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks, of all the capital cases in the twentieth century, did Graham's have such political resonance and staying power? Leaving aside the question. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955.
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Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955. |
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Women murderers -- California -- Case studies.
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Women murderers. |
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California. |
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Case studies.
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Women death row inmates -- United States -- Case studies.
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Women death row inmates. |
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United States. |
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Capital punishment -- United States.
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Capital punishment. |
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Print version: Cairns, Kathleen A. Proof of Guilt : Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America. Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, ©2013 9780803230095 |
| ISBN |
9780803245693 (electronic book) |
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0803245696 (electronic book) |
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