The Penalty is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's ExecutionsUniversity of Missouri Press, 2002 - 336 strani In 1872 Susan Eberhart was convicted of murder for helping her lover to kill his wife. The Atlanta Constitution ran a story about her hanging in Georgia that covered slightly more than four full columns of text. In an editorial sermon about her, the Constitution said that Miss Eberhart not only committed murder, but also committed adultery and "violated the sanctity of marriage." An 1890 article in the Elko Independent said of Elizabeth Potts, who was hanged for murder, "To her we look for everything that is gentle and kind and tender; and we can scarcely conceive her capable of committing the highest crime known to the law." Indeed, at the time, this attitude was also applied to women in general. By 1998 the press's and society's attitudes had changed dramatically. A columnist from Texas wrote that convicted murderess Karla Faye Tucker should not be spared just because she was a woman. The author went on to say that women could be just as violent and aggressive as men; the idea that women are defenseless and need men's protection "is probably the last vestige of institutionalized sexism that needs to be rubbed out." |
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The Demons Decline | 42 |
Jazz Journalism and the Execution Story As Drama | 85 |
Race Ethnicity and Sexual Preference | 147 |
More Animal Than Human? | 171 |
Sexual Preference | 183 |
Hollywood Female Tough Guys and Love Triangles | 191 |
Little Attention for First Executions | 224 |
Love Triangles | 240 |
Little Support for Changes to Execution Laws | 253 |
Government Secrecy of Executions under Federal Authority | 272 |
The Late 1990s and Beyond | 283 |
The HighTech Media at the End of the Twentieth Century | 285 |
Epilogue | 303 |
Works Cited | 311 |
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The Penalty is Death: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions Marlin Shipman Omejen predogled - 2002 |
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