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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Invisible Realities, Forgotten Voices written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Gado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1573567302
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Death Row Women written by Mark Gado and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 20th century, only six women were legally executed by the State of New York at Sing Sing Prison. In each case, the condemned faced a process of demonization and public humiliation that was orchestrated by a powerful and unforgiving media. When compared to the media treatment of men who went to the electric chair for similar offenses, the press coverage of female killers was ferocious and unrelenting. Granite woman, black-eyed Borgia, roadhouse tramp, sex-mad, and lousy prostitute are just some of the terms used by newspapers to describe these women. Unlike their male counterparts, females endured a campaign of expulsion and disgrace before they were put to death. Not since the 1950s has New York put another woman to death. Gado chronicles the crimes, the times, and the media attention surrounding these cases. The tales of these death row women shed light on the death penalty as it applies to women and the role of the media in both the trials and executions of these convicts. In these cases, the press affected the prosecutions, the judgements, and the decisions of authorities along the way. Contemporary headlines of the era are revealing in their blatant bias and leave little doubt of their purpose. Using family letters, prison correspondence, photographs, court transcripts, and last- minute pleas for mercy, Gado paints a fuller picture of these cases and the times.
Author : Mike James
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ISBN 13 : 9781874358060
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Women on Death Row written by Mike James and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. Kay Gillespie
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761845674
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Executed Women of 20th and 21st Centuries written by L. Kay Gillespie and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these women as numbers and statistics, this book presents them as human beings. Each of these women had lives, histories, and families. The purpose is not to condone their actions, but to suggest that those we executed are, in fact, humans—rather than monsters, as they are often portrayed.
Author : Kathleen A. O'Shea
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women on the Row written by Kathleen A. O'Shea and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kathleen O'Shea didn't set out looking for connections with women on death row. She wanted information about them--who they are, the ways in which they live from day to day. "I was writing a sociological reference book," she tells us, "a fairly safe, fairly emotionless endeavor." As she got to know the incarcerated women she was studying, however, what became clear to her were not their differences, but how, in so many ways, she and the women in prison were the same. Arguably, Kathleen O'Shea is the only person to have contacted every woman currently in U.S. prisons with a death sentence. Women On The Row: Revelations From Both Sides of the Bars is her honest, startling, sometimes raw, sometimes radiant exploration of the places where doing heavy time and being free overlap. Neither a treatise against the death penalty, nor an apologia for female innocence, Women On The Row focuses on the interconnectedness of women's lives. The author creates memorable composite portaits of ten death row women based on her conversations with them, on information that has been given to her, and juxtaposes vignettes from her own life "outside" for a call and response across realities. She reflects on her encounters with condemned women and how their stories illuminate her own. In the process she gives us creative nonfiction with the power to challenge deeply held assumptions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michelle Lyons
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1788700449
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Death Row: The Final Minutes written by Michelle Lyons and published by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN 12 YEARS, MICHELLE LYONS WITNESSED NEARLY 300 EXECUTIONS. First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville's Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates' lives before they were put to death by the state. Michelle was in the death chamber as some of the United States' most notorious criminals, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists, spoke their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins. Michelle supported the death penalty, before misgivings began to set in as the executions mounted. During her time in the prison system, and together with her dear friend and colleague, Larry Fitzgerald, she came to know and like some of the condemned men and women she saw die. She began to query the arbitrary nature of the death penalty and ask the question: do executions make victims of all of us? An incredibly powerful and unique look at the complex story of capital punishment, as told by those whose lives have been shaped by it, Death Row: The Final Minutes is an important take on crime and punishment at a fascinating point in America's political history.
Author : Kathleen O'Shea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024995
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998 written by Kathleen O'Shea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-02-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the stories of the women who have been executed and those currently awaiting their fate on death row. This work takes a historical look at women and the death penalty in the United States from 1900 to 1998. It gives the reader a look at the penal codes in the various states regarding the death penalty and the personal stories of women who have been executed or who are currently on death row. As Americans continue to debate the enforcement of the death penalty, the issues of race and gender as they relate to the death penalty are also debated. This book offers a unique perspective to a recurring sociopolitical issue.
Author : Anthony Graves
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807062529
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Infinite Hope written by Anthony Graves and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration. In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house on fire to cover his tracks, deepening the heinousness of the crime and rocking the tiny community to its core. Authorities were eager to make an arrest. Five days later, Anthony Graves was in custody. Graves, then twenty-six years old and without an attorney, was certain that his innocence was obvious. He did not know the victims, he had no knowledge about the crime, and he had an airtight alibi with witnesses. There was also no physical evidence linking him to the scene. Yet Graves was indicted, convicted of capital murder, sentenced to death, and, over the course of twelve years on death row, given two execution dates. He was not freed for eighteen years, two months, four days. Through years of suffering the whims of rogue prosecutors, vote-hungry district attorneys, and Texas State Rangers who played by their own rules, Graves was frequently exposed to the dire realities of being poor and black in the criminal justice system. He witnessed fellow inmates who became his friends and confidants be taken away, one by one, to their deaths. And he missed out on seeing his three young sons mature into men. Graves’s only solace was his infinite hope that the state would not execute him for a crime he did not commit. To maintain his dignity and sanity, Graves made sure as many people as possible knew about his case. He wrote letters to whomever he thought would listen. Pen pals in countries all over the world became allies, and he attracted the attention of a savvy legal team that overcame setback after setback, chiseling away at the state’s faulty case against him. Everyone’s efforts eventually worked. After Graves’s exoneration, the original prosecutor on his case was disbarred. Graves is one of a growing number of innocent people exonerated from death row. The moving account of his saga—of his ultimate fight for freedom from inside a prison cell—is as haunting as it is poignant, and as shameful to the legal system as it is inspiring to those on the losing end of it.
Author : Georgia Spinola
Publisher : Trellis Publishing
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (244 download)
Download or read book The Women of Death Row written by Georgia Spinola and published by Trellis Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look back at some female convicts who either served their time on death row or deserved to be there...In Lumberton, North Carolina, Thomas Burke fell victim to a house fire which was caused by a burning cigarette. Investigative authorities thought that he had fallen asleep while smoking, leaving thirty-eight-year-old Velma Burke as his widow. They didn't know that the fire was set by Velma. Velma knew how to play the part of the grieving widow. She cried and gave the authorities the requisite crocodile tears. No one would believe that the murder of Thomas Burke would set off a series of killings performed by the seemingly kind and harmless church-going woman with the soft voice.
Author : Virgilio Puleio
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Women On Death written by Virgilio Puleio and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With murder. Sometimes I wonder why it takes the detective so long to catch the killer or that a child does not have rites or the mother or father has no rights but they give the child back to them anyway. This book deals with the cases in Alabama, Arizona, and California. These three states account for more than one-half of the death penalty cases in the US. California leads the way by far with 21. The rest of the cases will be featured in Hell Hath No Fury 6: Women on Death Row 2.
Author : Mike James
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330434744
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Women On Death Row (special) written by Mike James and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor L. Streib
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821416936
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Fairer Death written by Victor L. Streib and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Tom Kuncl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671793913
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Death Row Women written by Tom Kuncl and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides chilling profiles of some of America's most deadly female killers, including Debra Jean Milke, Maria Isa, Deidre Hunt, Faye Copeland, and Blanche Taylor Moore. Original.
Author : Mike James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874358411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Women on Death Row written by Mike James and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to True Crime Library's riveting bestseller, Women on Death Row. Contains 10 new cases of women executed in America since the first book was published. The book also explores the reasons why women kill and summarises the stories that appeared in the first volume.
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034886
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Texas death row written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Light and his camera were permitted unparalleled access to Texas death row. His stark, powerful images show where and how the condemned live. In the year he took these pictures, fourteen men were executed in Texas. Suzanne Donovan's essay draws upon her interviews with the condemned men and with prison authorities, family members, and members of victims' families. Whoever opens this book will want to look away, for the pictures and words force us to gaze intimately into the eye of death. Light's photographs make us ask what we have done in sanctioning execution. With ninety percent approval, no other place in America has approved the death sentence so overwhelmingly as Texas. Ken Light's raw, austere photographs and the accompanying text reveal what we have created in the hopeless world of court-ordered death. Who are the men who exist there? What do they look like? How do they survive, and what are the rhythms of their daily lives? While outsiders focus on the final act of execution, the real drama unfolds each day in this arcane world.
Author : Yong Prejsnar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (252 download)
Download or read book The Women On Death Row written by Yong Prejsnar and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the women currently on Death Row in the United States are covered in Hell 5 and Hell 6. The book also includes a few older stories of the last women executed in some states. There are also more than 100 pictures included with the stories of how and why the female inhabitants of Death Row got there.
Author : Cornell University (New York). Cornell Law School. Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Judged for More Than Her Crime written by Cornell University (New York). Cornell Law School. Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few researchers have sought to obtain information about the crimes for which women have been sentenced to death, the circumstances of their lives before their convictions, and the conditions under which they are detained on death row. As a result, there is little empirical data about women on death row, which impedes advocates from understanding patterns in capital sentencing and the operation of gender bias in the criminal legal system. To the extent that scholars have focused on women on death row, they have concluded that they are beneficiaries of gender bias that operates in their favor. While it is undeniable that women are protected from execution under certain circumstances (particularly mothers of infants and young children) and that women sometimes benefit from more lenient sentencing, those that are sentenced to death are subjected to multiple forms of gender bias.
