| Foreword |
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| Preface to Revised Edition |
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| Prologue |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Lethal InjectionThe Ultimate High |
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Velma Barfield, "When I go...it's my gateway to Heaven." |
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Bessie Mae Williams, "God has answered my prayers, I'm ready now." |
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Rosanna Phillips, "Deliver me from this gas chamber. I don't want no part of it." |
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| Part One: Hanging"[ D]on't hang me high...for decency sake." |
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Eva Dugan, "I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way." |
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Mary Rogers, "Moral Idiot" |
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Ada LeBoeuf, "Sweet Pirogueing Mama" |
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May Carey, "My way is clear; I have nothing else to say." |
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Mary Holmes, "Torch Murderer" |
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Comparison Case: Winnie Ruth Judd, "Trunk Slayer" |
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| Part Two: The Electric Chair"This is a step forward in the cause of humanity." |
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Mary Farmer, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, have mercy on my soul." |
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Ruth Snyder, "If there is a penitent in this world, I am that." |
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Anna Antonio, "I am not afraid to die. I have nothing on my conscience." |
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Eva Coo, "I wish to God the men I know would help me now." |
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Mary Francis Creighton, "I'm tired, maybe I can rest now." |
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Helen Fowler, "Black Helen," "Sugar Woman" |
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Martha Jule Beck, "I know my sin was great, but the penalty is great too." |
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Selina Gilmore, "I'm going home where the angels dwell." |
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Earle Dennison, "God has forgiven me for all I have done." |
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Rhonda Belle Martin, "I want my body...given to some scientific institution...." |
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Anna Marie Hahn, "[ D]on't do this to me...Can't you think of my baby?" |
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Blanche Dean, "[ He] wanted a housekeeper and I wanted a home." |
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Betty Butler, "My work is done." |
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Irene Schroeder, "I am going to die...but I am not afraid." |
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Sue Logue, "I am ready to go." |
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Rose Marie Stinette, "Root Doctor" |
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Virginia Christian, "I'm right much worried." |
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Marie Porter, "I hold no malice towards anyone." |
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Toni Jo Henry, "The victim doesn't return to haunt me. I never think of him." |
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Comparison Cases: Effie Jowers, "Hammer Slayer" and Nannie Hazel Doss, "Arsenic Annie" |
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| Part Three: The Gas Chamber"How in the hell would you know?" |
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Juanita Spinelli, "My blood will burn holes in [ your] bodies." |
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Louise Peete, "There will be no screaming or hysterics. I am not built that way." |
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Barbara Graham, "I am paying for a life of little sins." |
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Elizabeth Duncan, "I am innocent. Where's Frank?" |
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Comparison Case: Dr. Alice Wynekoop |
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| Part Four: Federal Executions of Women |
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Mary Surratt, "If I had two lives to give, I'd give one gladly to save Mrs. Surratt." |
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Ethel Rosenberg, "Always remember that we were innocent and could not wrong our conscience." |
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Bonnie Brown Heady, "I'd rather die than be poor." |
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Comparison Cases: Judith Coplon, "The Petticoat Spy" and Mildred Gillars, "Axis Sally" |
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| Part Five: The Last Two of the 20th Century |
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Karla Faye Tucker, "Here she comes baby doll, she's all yours." |
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Judi Buenoano, "Via con dios" |
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Comparison Case: Guineveve Garcia, "Stay out of my case. Stay out of my life." |
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| Part Six: The New Century |
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Executions of Women: 20th and 21st Centuries |
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Truth about Trunk Murders Dies with Winnie Ruth Judd |
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Murderous Driver Dies on Nevada's Death Row |
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Betty Lou Beets (Texas Black Widow), "My time is running and the State of Texas will pick up where my husband left off...." |
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Christina Riggs, "Now I can be with my babies as I always intended." |
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Wanda Jean Allen, "I am the type of person I will hunt someone down I love and kill them." |
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Marilyn Kay Plantz, "She told us to burn him." |
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Lois Nadean Smith, "I won't have to hear her name anymore." |
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Lynda Lyon-Sibley [ Block], "Give me liberty or give me death." |
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Aileen Carol Wuornos (Damsel of Death), "If I am damned, who is forgiven?" |
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Frances Elaine Newton, "I know I did not murder my kids and my family." |
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Comparison Case: Tiffany Hall, "I will never get out." |
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| Part Seven: Clemencies and Commutations |
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| Part Eight: What Must a Woman Do to Be Executed? |
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| Conclusion |
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Mothers, Their Children, and Their Crimes |
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Mothers While on Death Row |
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| Appendix |
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