Women on Death Row. Claudia Dreifus.
by Dreifus, Claudia; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 65Institutions. Publisher: Ms., 2003ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Capital punishment | Death row inmates | Discrimination in capital punishment | False testimony | Judgments -- Criminal | Prisoners' families | Women prisonersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "There are 44 women sitting on death rows in some 14 states, less than 2% of the total among the condemned. In the 27 years since the Supreme Court revived capital punishment, ten women have been put to death. As the nation continues to debate the use of executions as a crime prevention strategy, the fate of these women is mostly absent from public discussion. They are a policy afterthought, as invisible in their potential deaths as they were in their lives." (MS.) This article profiles the women on death row.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Women on Death Row, Spring 2003; pp. 71-77.
"There are 44 women sitting on death rows in some 14 states, less than 2% of the total among the condemned. In the 27 years since the Supreme Court revived capital punishment, ten women have been put to death. As the nation continues to debate the use of executions as a crime prevention strategy, the fate of these women is mostly absent from public discussion. They are a policy afterthought, as invisible in their potential deaths as they were in their lives." (MS.) This article profiles the women on death row.
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