Harriet C. Frazier

Broschiertes Buch

Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005

A History and Comprehensive Registry of Legal Executions, Pardons, and Commutations

Beschreibung

This chronological discussion of the death penalty in Missouri covers those executed from 1803 through 2005. Sources include newspapers, county histories, prison records, Union Army records, pardon papers and appellate court cases. Chapters discuss such topics as the death penalty offenses of Indians and blacks; death sentences carried out by the military; lynchings; the gas chamber; the executions of rapists, juveniles, and women; pardons and commutations; appellate court reversals; and lethal injection.

Autor

Harriet C. Frazier, attorney and retired law professor in the Criminal Justice Department at University of Central Missouri, also has a Ph.D. in English. She lives in Kansas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780786427192
• ISBN-10: 0786427191
• Artikelnr.: 22237437