Studies criminal cases from throughout the twentieth century in which women have been given the death penalty.

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 als

The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishme

In late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the gallows. Of 520 convicted capital offenders sentenced to die be

Documents the life stories of death-row prisoners and the author's experiences as a pro bono attorney on Texas death penalty cases to present arguments for the