Wretched Sisters Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend (Studies in Crime and Punishment)

Wretched Sisters: Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend (Studies in Crime and Punishment) By Mary Welek Atwell
2014 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 1433122340 | PDF | 3 MB
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.