L. Kay Gillespie

Executed Women of 20th and 21st Centuries

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. The purpose is not to condone the actions of these women, but to suggest that those we executed are, in fact, humans_rather than monsters, as they are often portrayed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9780761845669
• ISBN-10: 0761845666
• Artikelnr.: 26572820

Autorenporträt

L. Kay Gillespie is a professor who has studied executions and the death penalty for over twenty years. He is chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Weber State University, has worked with various criminal justice agencies, including adult and juvenile corrections, and is a former member of the Utah State Board of Pardons. He is the author of several articles and books on the subjects of death row and execution.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Preface to Revised
Edition Chapter 4 Prologue Chapter 5 Introduction: Lethal Injection - The
Ultimate High Chapter 6 North Carolina: Velma Barfield - "When I go...it's
my gateway to Heaven."; Bessie Mae Williams - "God has answered my prayers,
I'm ready now."; Rosanna Phillips - "Deliver me from this gas chamber. I
don't want no part of it." Chapter 7 Part One: Hanging - "[D]on't hang me
high...for decency's sake." Chapter 8 Arizona: Eva Dugan - "I don't know
where I'm going but I'm on my way." Chapter 9 Vermont: Mary Rogers - "Moral
Idiot" Chapter 10 Louisiana: Ada LeBoeuf - "Sweet Pirogueing Mama"; Julia
Moore Chapter 11 Delaware: May Carey - "My way is clear; I have nothing
else to say." Chapter 12 Mississippi: Mary Holmes - "Torch Murderer"
Chapter 13 Comparison Case: Winnie Ruth Judd - "Trunk Slayer" Chapter 14
Part Two: The Electric Chair - "This is a step forward in the cause of
humanity." Chapter 15 New York: Mary Farmer - "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
have mercy on my soul."; Ruth Snyder - "If there is a peniten in this
world, I am that."; Anna Antonio - "I am not afraid to die. I have nothing
on my conscience."; Eva Coo - "I wish to God the men I know Chapter 16
Alabama: Selina Gilmore - "I'm going home where the angels dwell."; Earle
Dennison - "God has forgiven me for all I have done."; Rhonda Belle Martin
- "I want my body...given to some scientific institution..." Chapter 17
Ohio: Anna Marie Hahn - "[D]on't do this to me...can't you think of my
baby?"; Blanche Dean - "[He] wanted a housekeeper and I wanted a home.";
Betty Butler - "My work is done." Chapter 18 Pennsylvania: Irene Schroeder
- "I am going to die...but I am not afraid."; Corrine Sykes Chapter 19
South Carolina: Sue Logue - "I am ready to go."; Rose Marie Stinette -
"Root Doctor" Chapter 20 Virginia: Virginia Christian - "I'm right much
worried." Chapter 21 Illinois: Marie Porter - "I hold no malice towards
anyone." Chapter 22 Louisiana: Toni Jo Henry - "The victim doesn't return
to haunt me. I never think of him." Chapter 23 Mississippi: Mildred Johnson
Chapter 24 Georgia: Lena Baker Chapter 25 Comparison Cases: Effie Jowers -
"Hammer Slayer" and Nannie Hazel Doss - "Arsenic Annie" Chapter 26 Part
Three: The Gas Chamber - "How in the hell would you know?" Chapter 27
California: Juanita Spinelli - "My blood will burn holes in [your]
bodies."; Loiuse Peete - "There will be no screaming or hysterics. I am not
built that way."; Barbara Graham - "I am paying for a life of little
sins."; Elizabeth Duncan - "I am innocent. Chapter 28 Comparison Case: Dr.
Alice Wynekoop Chapter 29 Part Four: Federal Executions of Women Chapter 30
Mary Surratt - "If I had two lives to give, I'd give one gladly to save
Mrs. Surratt." Chapter 31 Ethel Rosenberg - "Always remember that we were
innocent and could not wrong our conscience." Chapter 32 Bonnie Brown Heady
- "I'd rather die than be poor." Chapter 33 Comparison Cases: Judith Coplon
- "The Petticoat Spy" and Mildred Gillars - "Axis Sally" Chapter 34 Part
Five: The Last Two of the 20th Century Chapter 35 Karla Faye Tucker - "Here
she comes baby doll, she's all yours." Chapter 36 Judi Buenoano - "Via con
dios" Chapter 37 Comparison Case: Guineveve Garcia, "Stay out of my case.
Stay out of my life." Chapter 38 Part Six: The New Century Chapter 39
Executions of Women: 20th and 21st Centuries Chapter 40 Truth About Trunk
Murders Dies with Winnie Ruth Judd Chapter 41 Murderous Driver Dies on
Nevada's Death Row Chapter 42 Betty Lou Beets (Texas Black Widow) - "My
time is running and the State of Texas will pick up where my husband left
off..." Chapter 43 Christina Riggs - "Now I can be with my babies as I
always intended." Chapter 44 Wanda Jean Allen - "I am the type of person I
will hunt someone down I love and kill them." Chapter 45 Marilyn Kay Plantz
- "She told us to burn him." Chapter 46 Lois Nadean Smith - "I won't have
to hear her name anymore." Chapter 47 Lynda Lyon-Sibley [Block] - "Give me
liberty or give me death." Chapter 48 Aileen Carol Wuornos (Damsel of
Death) - "If I am damned, who is forgiven?" Chapter 49 Frances Elaine
Newton - "I know I did not murder my kids and my family." Chapter 50
Comparison Case: Tiffany Hall - "I will never get out." Chapter 51 Part
Seven: Clemencies and Commutations Chapter 52 Part Eight: What Must a Woman
Do to Be Executed? Chapter 53 Conclusion: Mothers, Their Children, and
Their Crimes; Mothers While on Death Row; Mothers to the End