The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishme

"This book is the first to systematically investigate the capital punishment of girls and women in one jurisdiction in the United States during nearly four cent

Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it als

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 co

In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last.