Title: Myth of the hanging tree : stories of crime and punishment in territorial New Mexico /
Authors: Tórrez, Robert J.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Capital punishment New Mexico History.; Hanging New Mexico History.; New Mexico Social conditions.
Contents: Myth of the hanging tree -- Legal hangings and capital punishment in New Mexico -- Two of history's forgotten desperados -- Murder, politics, and justice in frontier New Mexico : the framing of Perfecto Padilla -- The man who was hanged twice -- Witness to a hanging -- Shoot-out at Gallegos Canyon -- Judicial gems : the art of judicial sentences in territorial New Mexico -- "Young, ignorant, and immoral" : murder by poison at Hillsboro, New Mexico -- Paula Angel : a search for the "only woman ever hanged in New Mexico" -- The old penitentiary : New Mexico's "first new public building".