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Female Capital Punishment - From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition in Connecticut (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,368
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Female Capital Punishment - From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition in Connecticut (Paperback): Lawrence B. Goodheart

Female Capital Punishment - From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition in Connecticut (Paperback)

Lawrence B. Goodheart

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

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This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries. Using Connecticut as an essential case study, due to its long history as a colony and a state, this study is the first of its kind not only for New England but for the United States. The author uses rich archival sources to look critically at the gendered differential in the application of the death penalty from the seventeenth century until the abolition of capital punish-ment in Connecticut in 2012. In addition to analyzing cases of executions, this monograph offers an innovative focus on women and girls who escaped judicial execution with death sentences that were avoided, reversed, reprieved, or commuted. The book fully describes the impact of the rise and fall of witchcraft allegations during the last half of the seventeenth century, the clash between the deg-radation of slavery and Enlightenment ideals that was the provocation for the de facto end of female capital punishment in the New Republic, the introduction of two degrees of murder, which effectively provided an es-cape hatch from the gallows, and a detailed look at the unique case of Lydia Sherman, whose sentence to life in prison under the Connecticut murder statute of 1846 emphatically confirmed the unofficial state exemption of females from the gallows. Pivotal cases since 1900 are also examined. The book will attract attention from a broad audience interested in criminology, criminal justice, capital punishment, women's studies, and legal history. Anti-death penalty advocates, law school activists, public defenders, capital punishment litigators, and jurists will also find the book useful.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
Release date: August 2021
First published: 2020
Authors: Lawrence B. Goodheart
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-47925-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General
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LSN: 0-367-47925-7
Barcode: 9780367479251

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