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| Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Victor L Streib |
| ISBN: | 0821416936 9780821416938 0821416944 9780821416945 0821442082 9780821442081 |
| OCLC Number: | 65820120 |
| Description: | xii, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. A context of sex bias -- 1. Capital crimes -- 2. The death penalty for women nationally -- pt. 2. The evolution of Ohio's death penalty -- 3. Earliest Ohio death penalty statutes -- 4. The modern death penalty era in Ohio -- 5. Patterns of death sentencing and executions -- pt. 3. Women executed in Ohio, 1803-2005 -- 6. Hester Foster : executed on February 9, 1844 -- 7. Anna Marie Hahn : executed on December 7, 1938 -- 8. Dovie Blanche Dean : executed on January 15, 1954 -- 9. Betty Butler : executed on June 12, 1954 -- pt. 4. Women sentenced to death in Ohio, 1973-2005 -- 10. Sandra Lockett : sentenced in 1975, reversed in 1978 -- 11. Alberta Osborne : sentenced in 1975, reversed in 1978 -- 12. Patricia Wernert : sentenced in 1976, reversed in 1978 -- 13. Benita Smith : sentenced in 1977, reversed in 1978 -- 14. Sharon Faye Young : sentenced in 1983, reversed in 1986 -- 15. Rosalie Grant : sentenced in 1983, commuted in 1991 -- 16. Debra Brown : sentenced in 1985, commuted in 1991 -- 17. Elizabeth Green : sentenced in 1988, commuted in 1991 -- 18. Beatrice Lampkin : sentenced in 1989, commuted in 1991 -- 19. Donna Roberts : sentenced in 2003, now on death row -- 20. Nicole Ann Diar : sentenced in 2005, now on death row -- pt. 5. Comparing and contrasting cases -- 21. Executed women, 1803-2005 -- 22. Death-sentenced women, 1973-2005 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest |
| Responsibility: | Victor L. Streib. |
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