Kathleen A Cairns

Proof of Guilt

Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Kathleen A. Cairns is a lecturer in the Department of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is the author of The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Nebraska, 2007) and Hard Time at Tehachapi: California¿s First Women¿s Prison.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 151mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780803230095
• ISBN-10: 0803230095
• Artikelnr.: 36762854

Autorenporträt

Kathleen A. Cairns is a lecturer in the Department of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is the author of The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Nebraska, 2007) and Hard Time at Tehachapi: California’s First Women’s Prison.

Inhaltsangabe

List of 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