Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently
treated as equal to men is the American judicial system. Although
the system has met with enormous public condemnation, equality
under the law has justified the legal execution of nearly six
hundred American women since 1632. This book profiles the lives and
cases of selected women sentenced to capital punishment in America
between 1840 and 1899, most of whom were executed by hanging. The
book is divided into chapters by decades, chronologically following
a summary of the long and heated debate regarding women and capital
punishment. Also evident is the influence of the 1870s women's
rights movement on the issue. Each chapter concludes with a
comprehensive list of all women executed in the United States
during the respective decade, specifying age, ethnicity and
criminal conviction.
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