TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mary Welek Atwell
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1529-2444
SN  - 9781453914182
TI  - Wretched Sisters
T2  - Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1418-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054419
N2  - 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.
KW  - crime, women, Todesstrafe, Criminal Justice, Frau, Geschichte 1976-2007, Capital punishment, Women, Gender, Law, USA, Capital punishmend
LA  - English
ER  -