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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 166 pages, height x width x depth: 200x136x13 mm, weight: 256 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 16-Jul-2009
  • Izdevniecība: University Press of America
  • ISBN-10: 0761845666
  • ISBN-13: 9780761845669
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 166 pages, height x width x depth: 200x136x13 mm, weight: 256 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 16-Jul-2009
  • Izdevniecība: University Press of America
  • ISBN-10: 0761845666
  • ISBN-13: 9780761845669
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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, humansrather than monsters, as they are often portrayed.
Foreword ix
Preface to Revised Edition xiii
Prologue xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Lethal Injection—The Ultimate High xxi
North Carolina
xxi
Velma Barfield, "When I go...it's my gateway to Heaven."
xxi
Bessie Mae Williams, "God has answered my prayers, I'm ready now."
xxii
Rosanna Phillips, "Deliver me from this gas chamber. I don't want no part of it."
xxv
Part One: Hanging—"[ D]on't hang me high...for decency sake." 1
Arizona
1
Eva Dugan, "I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."
1
Vermont
8
Mary Rogers, "Moral Idiot"
8
Louisiana
8
Ada LeBoeuf, "Sweet Pirogueing Mama"
8
Julia Moore
10
Delaware
11
May Carey, "My way is clear; I have nothing else to say."
11
Mississippi
12
Mary Holmes, "Torch Murderer"
12
Comparison Case: Winnie Ruth Judd, "Trunk Slayer"
13
Part Two: The Electric Chair—"This is a step forward in the cause of humanity." 21
New York
23
Mary Farmer, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, have mercy on my soul."
23
Ruth Snyder, "If there is a penitent in this world, I am that."
24
Anna Antonio, "I am not afraid to die. I have nothing on my conscience."
28
Eva Coo, "I wish to God the men I know would help me now."
29
Mary Francis Creighton, "I'm tired, maybe I can rest now."
31
Helen Fowler, "Black Helen," "Sugar Woman"
33
Martha Jule Beck, "I know my sin was great, but the penalty is great too."
34
Alabama
37
Selina Gilmore, "I'm going home where the angels dwell."
37
Earle Dennison, "God has forgiven me for all I have done."
38
Rhonda Belle Martin, "I want my body...given to some scientific institution...."
38
Ohio
39
Anna Marie Hahn, "[ D]on't do this to me...Can't you think of my baby?"
39
Blanche Dean, "[ He] wanted a housekeeper and I wanted a home."
40
Betty Butler, "My work is done."
41
Pennsylvania
42
Irene Schroeder, "I am going to die...but I am not afraid."
42
Corrine Sykes
43
South Carolina
43
Sue Logue, "I am ready to go."
43
Rose Marie Stinette, "Root Doctor"
43
Virginia
44
Virginia Christian, "I'm right much worried."
44
Illinois
45
Marie Porter, "I hold no malice towards anyone."
45
Louisiana
46
Toni Jo Henry, "The victim doesn't return to haunt me. I never think of him."
46
Mississippi
47
Mildred Johnson
47
Georgia
47
Lena Baker
47
Comparison Cases: Effie Jowers, "Hammer Slayer" and Nannie Hazel Doss, "Arsenic Annie"
47
Part Three: The Gas Chamber—"How in the hell would you know?" 55
California
56
Juanita Spinelli, "My blood will burn holes in [ your] bodies."
56
Louise Peete, "There will be no screaming or hysterics. I am not built that way."
58
Barbara Graham, "I am paying for a life of little sins."
59
Elizabeth Duncan, "I am innocent. Where's Frank?"
61
Comparison Case: Dr. Alice Wynekoop
63
Part Four: Federal Executions of Women 67
Mary Surratt, "If I had two lives to give, I'd give one gladly to save Mrs. Surratt."
67
Ethel Rosenberg, "Always remember that we were innocent and could not wrong our conscience."
69
Bonnie Brown Heady, "I'd rather die than be poor."
71
Comparison Cases: Judith Coplon, "The Petticoat Spy" and Mildred Gillars, "Axis Sally"
72
Part Five: The Last Two of the 20th Century 75
Karla Faye Tucker, "Here she comes baby doll, she's all yours."
75
Judi Buenoano, "Via con dios"
78
Comparison Case: Guineveve Garcia, "Stay out of my case. Stay out of my life."
80
Part Six: The New Century 83
Executions of Women: 20th and 21st Centuries
83
Truth about Trunk Murders Dies with Winnie Ruth Judd
84
Murderous Driver Dies on Nevada's Death Row
85
Betty Lou Beets (Texas Black Widow), "My time is running and the State of Texas will pick up where my husband left off...."
85
Christina Riggs, "Now I can be with my babies as I always intended."
87
Wanda Jean Allen, "I am the type of person I will hunt someone down I love and kill them."
88
Marilyn Kay Plantz, "She told us to burn him."
89
Lois Nadean Smith, "I won't have to hear her name anymore."
90
Lynda Lyon-Sibley [ Block], "Give me liberty or give me death."
91
Aileen Carol Wuornos (Damsel of Death), "If I am damned, who is forgiven?"
92
Frances Elaine Newton, "I know I did not murder my kids and my family."
93
Comparison Case: Tiffany Hall, "I will never get out."
94
Part Seven: Clemencies and Commutations 99
Part Eight: What Must a Woman Do to Be Executed? 111
Conclusion 117
Mothers, Their Children, and Their Crimes
119
Mothers While on Death Row
120
Mothers to the End
121
Appendix 125
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.