Description
Book SynopsisWomen on death row are such a rarity that, once condemned, they may be ignored and forgotten. Ohio, a typical, middle-of-the-road death penalty state, provides a telling example of this phenomenon.
Trade Review“(Streib) finds a process fraught with bias, arbitrariness, caprice, and mistakes that make it less likely that women will be subject to the death penalty.... Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *
“A thoroughly researched and disquieting book that provides us with vivid snapshots of the few luckless and until now forgotten women who have broken into the typically all-male death penalty club in Ohio.... (H)is portrayals have national significance.... Their stories will haunt those who read them.” * Criminal Justice magazine *
“Streib provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the application of the death penalty to women over time. His richly detailed presentation sharpens the abiding question of the relationship between gender and the death penalty.”
“Professor Streib demonstrates that one’s understanding of the death penalty can always be expanded and refined by looking closely at the real cases.”
“Professor Streib has significantly added to the scholarship of capital punishment and its jurisprudence with this book.”
