The Penalty Is Death
Subtitle: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780826213860
Subjects: Capital Punishment; Media Studies; Press & journalism; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Law; Female Offenders (Criminology); Women's Studies - General; Sociology; USA; Penology; Criminology; Women prisoners; Social Science; Criminal Law - General; Executions and executioners; History; Press coverage; United States
Description: "In "The Penalty Is Death," Marlin Shipman examines the shifts in press coverage of women's executions over the past one hundred and fifty years. Since the colonies' first execution of a woman in 1632, about 560 more women have had to face the death penalty. Newspaper responses to these executions have ranged from massive national coverage to limited regional and even local coverage.

Throughout the years the press has been guilty of sensationalism, stereotyping, and marginalizing of female convicts, making prejudicial remarks, trying these women in the media, and virtually ignoring or simply demeaning African American women convicts. This researched book studies countless episodes that serve to illustrate these points."--BOOK JACKET.