TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cairns,Kathleen A.
TI  - Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America
SN  - 9780803245693
AV  - HV8701 .P766 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - UNP - Nebraska
KW  - Graham, Barbara,
KW  - Women murderers
KW  - California
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Women death row inmates
KW  - United States
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Graham, Barbara, 1923-1955
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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