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Author Streib, Victor L.

Title The fairer death [electronic resource] : executing women in Ohio / Victor L. Streib.

Imprint Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2006.

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Description xii, 198 p. : ill.
Series Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest
Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-194) and index.
Contents Capital crimes -- The death penalty for women nationally -- Earliest Ohio death penalty statutes -- The modern death penalty era in Ohio -- Patterns of death sentencing and executions -- Hester Foster : executed on February 9, 1844 -- Anna Marie Hahn : executed on December 7, 1938 -- Dovie Blanche Dean : executed on January 15, 1954 -- Betty Butler : executed on June 12, 1954 -- Sandra Lockett : sentenced in 1975, reversed in 1978 -- Alberta Osborne : sentenced in 1975, reversed in 1978 -- Patricia Wernert : sentenced in 1976, reversed in 1978 -- Benita Smith : sentenced in 1977, reversed in 1978 -- Sharon Faye Young : sentenced in 1983, reversed in 1986 -- Rosalie Grant : sentenced in 1983, commuted in 1991 -- Debra Brown : sentenced in 1985, commuted in 1991 -- Elizabeth Green : sentenced in 1988, commuted in 1991 -- Beatrice Lampkin : sentenced in 1989, commuted in 1991 -- Donna Roberts : sentenced in 2003, now on death row -- Nicole Ann Diar : sentenced in 2005, now on death row -- Executed women, 1803-2005 -- Death-sentenced women, 1973-2005.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Capital punishment -- Ohio -- History -- Case studies.
Female offenders -- Ohio -- History -- Case studies.
Trials (Murder) -- Ohio -- History -- Cases.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0821416936 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780821416938 (cloth : alk. paper)
0821416944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821416945 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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