Dead Woman Walking: Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55 Ballinger Anette
Dead Woman Walking: Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55 Ballinger Anette This title was first published in 2000: Between 1900 and 1950 130 women were sentenced to death for murder in England…
Specifikacia Dead Woman Walking: Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55 Ballinger Anette
Dead Woman Walking: Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55 Ballinger Anette
This title was first published in 2000: Between 1900 and 1950 130 women were sentenced to death for murder in England and Wales. Thus, 91 per cent of women murderers had their sentence commuted, whereas if we examine the corresponding figures for men, only 39 per cent had their sentence commuted. Only 12 of these women were actually executed.
However, this text argues that a closer examination of this apparent discrepancy reveals it to be a misconception which has come about as a result of the statistics regarding infanticide. It would appear that state servants working within the criminal justice system were far more reluctant to hang women than men. That is to say - unlike men - the vast majority of women murderers have killed their own child or children.
Once this is taken into account we find that women who had murdered an adult had less hope of a reprieve than men. Thus, the author
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Women in Medieval England