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Female capital punishment : from the gallows to unofficial abolition in Connecticut / Lawrence B. Goodheart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodheart, Lawrence B., 1944- author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in crime and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Connecticut--History.
- Capital punishment.
- Women death row inmates--Connecticut--History.
- Women death row inmates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Biography/History:
- Lawrence B. Goodheart is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Connecticutand is the author or co-editor of eight books.
- Contents:
- Consorts of Satan
- Witch hunt in the colony of Connecticut, 1647-1670
- The waning of witchcraft
- Black girls and the gallows
- The peril of bastard infanticide
- The 1846 murder statute and life in prison
- Lydia Sherman, "the modern Lucretia Borgia"
- The female exemption after 1900.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Goodheart, Lawrence B., 1944- Female capital punishment
- ISBN:
- 9780367463793
- 0367463792
- 1000059782
- 9781000059748
- 100005974X
- 9781000059762
- 1000059766
- 9781000059786
- Publisher Number:
- 99992173183
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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