Proof of Guilt Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America.

By:

Cairns, Kathleen A [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780803245693

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV8701 .P766 2013

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Subject: Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story-beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman executed in California-after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks, of all the capital cases in the twentieth century, did Graham's have such political resonance and staying power? Leaving aside the question.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HV8701.73 C35 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn830162296

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Author's Note; Introduction; 1 A Murder in Burbank; 2 A Life on the Lam; 3 A Femme Fatale on Trial; 4 Crime Doesn't Pay; 5 An Execution in California; 6 Executing Women in America; 7 I Want to Live!; 8 Due Process; 9 Abolishing the Death Penalty; 10 The Ultimate Penalty; Notes; Selected Bibliography.

Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story-beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, "Bloody Babs" became the third woman executed in California-after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured the imaginations of journalists, filmmakers, and death penalty opponents. Why, Kathleen A. Cairns asks, of all the capital cases in the twentieth century, did Graham's have such political resonance and staying power? Leaving aside the question.

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