Woman on death row

AutorEdward J. Schauer
CargoCollege of Juvenile Justice
Páginas1-3
Año 4, vol. VII agosto-diciembre 2011/Year 4, vol. VII August-Decembe r 2011
www.somecrimnl.es.tl 1
Fecha de recepción: 11/06/2011
Fecha de aceptación: 10/08/2011
WOMAN ON DEATH ROW
MUJER MUERTA EN EL CAMINO
Dr. Edward J. Schauer
College of Juvenile Justice
ejschauer@pvamu.edu
Estados Unidos de América
Woman on death row. By: Velma Barfield. Forward by: Ruth Bell Graham. Afterward
by: Anne Graham Lotz. (Nashville, TN: Oliver-Nelson Books, 1985. Pp. XII-175)
(ISBN 0-8407-9531-9).
The application of the death penalty in the United States of America (US) was
officially blocked by the US Supreme Court case, Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238
(1972). The Furman decision declared the death penalty unconstitutional as it was
being applied across the US. In her book, Wretched sisters: Examining gender and
capital punishment, (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), Mary Welek Atwell shares the
following insight: Between 1967 and 1977, not one person was executed in the United

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