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Author:

Tórrez, Robert J.

Title:

Myth of the hanging tree : stories of crime and punishment in territorial New Mexico / Robert J. Tórrez.

Publisher:

University of New Mexico Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 186 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Capital punishment--New Mexico--History.
Hanging--New Mexico--History.
New Mexico--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-179) and index.

Contents:

Myth of the hanging tree -- Legal hangings and capital punishment in New Mexico -- Two of history's forgotten desperados -- Murder, politics, and justice in frontier New Mexico : the framing of Perfecto Padilla -- The man who was hanged twice -- Witness to a hanging -- Shoot-out at Gallegos Canyon -- Judicial gems : the art of judicial sentences in territorial New Mexico -- "Young, ignorant, and immoral" : murder by poison at Hillsboro, New Mexico -- Paula Angel : a search for the "only woman ever hanged in New Mexico" -- The old penitentiary : New Mexico's "first new public building".

ISBN:

0826343791 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826343796 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)165082675

LCCN:

2007033161

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)