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Offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have sentenced women to death, but it also tells the stories of the women who have been executed, or are currently awaiting their faith on death row.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface History and Execution of Women Alabama: Electrocution Arizona: Gas/Lethal Injection Arkansas: Electrocution/Lethal Injection California: Gas/Lethal Injection Connecticut: Lethal Injection Delaware: Lethal Injection/Hanging Federal Jurisdiction Florida: Electrocution Georgia: Electrocution Idaho: Lethal Injection/Firing Squad Illinois: Lethal Injection Indiana: Lethal Injection Kentucky: Electrocution Louisiana: Lethal Injection Maryland: Gas/Lethal Injection Massachussetts: No Death Penalty Mississippi: Gas/Lethal Injection Missouri: Lethal Injection Nevada: Lethal Injection New Jersey: Lethal Injection New York: Lethal Injection North Carolina: Gas/Lethal Injection Ohio: Gas/Lethal Injection Oklahoma: Lethal Injection Pennsylvania: Lethal Injection South Carolina: Lethal Injection/Electrocution Tennessee: Electrocution Texas: Lethal Injection Virginia: Lethal Injection Vermont: No Death Penalty Appendixes Bibliography Index

About the Author

KATHLEEN A. O'SHEA is a social worker who does criminal justice research on female prisoners with a focus on women and the death penalty. She is the editor of Female Offenders: An Annotated Bibliography published by Greenwood Press in 1996.

Reviews

"[P]oignant and vital ... this work demands that we give due attention to a group of women long overlooked by criminologists and historians, and about which we continue to know very little: women sentenced to death. O'Shea provides a good compendium of women on death row and a useful starting point for scholars working on capital punishment history."-Journal of American Studies

?[P]oignant and vital ... this work demands that we give due attention to a group of women long overlooked by criminologists and historians, and about which we continue to know very little: women sentenced to death. O'Shea provides a good compendium of women on death row and a useful starting point for scholars working on capital punishment history.?-Journal of American Studies

?In this interesting and provocative book O'Shea has compiled scattered statistical information on past and current death row inmates. Though the main focus is on women and the death penalty, the factual accounts provide unforgettable insights into the darkest secrets of the criminal justice system in carrying out executions.... This disturbing book makes readers revisit and rethink the execution of human beings. At times, this reviewer felt he had a front row seat witnessing the emotions and feelings of women and men sentenced to death.... Simply stated, the book begins to unravel on an emotional level the arguments for the death penalty. Highly recommended for general readers, undergraduates, and above.?-Choice

?O'Shea's vivid and fluid literary style enhances her prodigious research into state laws and political attitudes that sustain the death penalty.?-National Women's Studies Association Journal

?The study of women's experiences is described in such detail that it provides readers with an understanding of the circumstances surrounding either their deaths or, for those currently on death row, the decisions for the death penalty.?-Journal of Criminal Justice

"O'Shea's vivid and fluid literary style enhances her prodigious research into state laws and political attitudes that sustain the death penalty."-National Women's Studies Association Journal

"The study of women's experiences is described in such detail that it provides readers with an understanding of the circumstances surrounding either their deaths or, for those currently on death row, the decisions for the death penalty."-Journal of Criminal Justice

"In this interesting and provocative book O'Shea has compiled scattered statistical information on past and current death row inmates. Though the main focus is on women and the death penalty, the factual accounts provide unforgettable insights into the darkest secrets of the criminal justice system in carrying out executions.... This disturbing book makes readers revisit and rethink the execution of human beings. At times, this reviewer felt he had a front row seat witnessing the emotions and feelings of women and men sentenced to death.... Simply stated, the book begins to unravel on an emotional level the arguments for the death penalty. Highly recommended for general readers, undergraduates, and above."-Choice