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Author Streib, Victor L

Title The fairer death : executing women in Ohio / Victor L. Streib
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 198 pages) : illustrations
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.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-194) and index
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Subject Capital punishment -- Ohio -- History -- Case studies
Female offenders -- Ohio -- History -- Case studies
Trials (Murder) -- Ohio -- History -- Cases
Capital punishment
Female offenders
Trials (Murder)
Ohio
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book