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Dead Woman Walking - Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55 (Paperback)
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Dead Woman Walking - Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2000: Between 1900 and 1950 130
women were sentenced to death for murder in England and Wales. Only
12 of these women were actually executed. Thus, 91 per cent of
women murderers had their sentence commuted, whereas if we examine
the corresponding figures for men, only 39 per cent had their
sentence commuted. It would appear that state servants working
within the criminal justice system were far more reluctant to hang
women than men. However, this text argues that a closer examination
of this apparent discrepancy reveals it to be a misconception which
has come about as a result of the statistics regarding infanticide.
That is to say - unlike men - the vast majority of women murderers
have killed their own child or children. Once this is taken into
account we find that women who had murdered an adult had less hope
of a reprieve than men. Thus, the author shows that the large
proportion of women murderers as killers of their own children has
created a false impression of how female murderers fared inside the
criminal justice system.
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