1st Edition
Female Capital Punishment From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition in Connecticut
By Lawrence B. Goodheart
Copyright 2020
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book systematically investigates the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States over nearly four centuries. Using Connecticut as an essential case study, due to 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... Read more
Introduction: The Gendered Differential
1. Consorts of Satan
2. Witch Hunt in the Colony of Connecticut, 1647-1670
3. The Waning of Witchcraft
4. Black Girls and the Gallows
5. The Peril of Bastard Infanticide
6. The 1846 Murder Statute and Life in Prison
7. Lydia Sherman, "The Modern Lucretia Borgia"
8. The Female Exemption after 1900
Epilogue: From the Gallows to Unofficial Abolition during Four Centuries
Biography
Lawrence B. Goodheart is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Connecticut and is the author or co-editor of eight books.
