%0 Book
%A Mary Welek Atwell
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1529-2444
%@ 9781453914182
%T Wretched Sisters
%B Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-1418-2
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054419
%X Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.
%K crime, women, Todesstrafe, Criminal Justice, Frau, Geschichte 1976-2007, Capital punishment, Women, Gender, Law, USA, Capital punishmend
%G English