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03724aam a2200421 i 4500 001 A12C49D2CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 191217t20202020nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019058517 020 $a 0367479257 020 $a 9780367479251 020 $a 0367462508 020 $a 9780367462505 035 $a (OCoLC)1133126562 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ct 050 00 $a HV8699.U6 $b C846 2020 100 1 $a Goodheart, Lawrence B., $d 1944- $e author. 245 10 $a Female capital punishment : $b from the gallows to unofficial abolition in Connecticut / $c Lawrence B. Goodheart. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, $c 2020. 300 $a 175 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge studies in crime and society 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "This book is the first to systematically investigate the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States during nearly four centuries. Using Connecticut as an essential case study because of its long history as a colony and a state, this study is the first of its kind not only for New England but for the United States. The author uses rich archival sources to look critically at the gendered differential in the application of the death penalty from the seventeenth century until the abolition of capital punishment in Connecticut in 2012. In addition to analyzing cases of executions, this monograph offers an innovative focus on women and girls who escaped judicial execution with death sentences that were avoided, reversed, reprieved, or commuted. The book fully describes the impact of the rise and fall of witchcraft allegations during the last half of the seventeenth century, the clash between the degradation of slavery and Enlightenment ideals that was the provocation for the de facto end of female capital punishment in the New Republic, the introduction of two degrees of murder that effectively provided an escape hatch from the gallows, and a detailed look at the unique case of Lydia Sherman, whose sentence to life in prison under the Connecticut murder statute of 1846 emphatically confirmed the unofficial state exemption of females from the gallows. The book will attract attention from a broad audience interested in criminology, criminal justice, capital punishment, women's studies, and legal history. Anti-death penalty advocates, law school activists, public defenders, capital punishment litigators, and jurists will also find the book useful. Pivotal cases since 1900 are also examined"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $z Connecticut $x History. 650 0 $a Women death row inmates $z Connecticut $x History. 650 7 $a Capital punishment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00846392 650 7 $a Women death row inmates. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177556 651 7 $a Connecticut. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205688 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Goodheart, Lawrence B., 1944- $t Female capital punishment $d New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. $z 9780367463793 $w (DLC) 2019058518 830 0 $a Routledge studies in crime and society. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018014059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A12C49D2CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search