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The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio explores Ohio's experience with the death penalty for women and reflects on what this experience reveals about the death penalty for women throughout...
Feb 12, 2007 · The Fairer Death: Executing Women in Ohio is a new book by Victor Streib, a professor at the Ohio Northern University College of Law. The book explores Ohio’s use of the death penalty for women and examines the implications for women on death row throughout the country.
Women 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.
Women 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...
Donna Roberts (born May 22, 1944), an American convicted of being an accomplice to murder, is the only woman on death row in the state of Ohio. Early life. Roberts was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio and was a student of Austintown-Fitch High School.
Oct 30, 2010 · In Ohio 10% of murders are committed by women, but only 2 percent receive death sentences. Chief trial counsel of the Ohio Public Defender's Office, Greg Myers suspects there's gender bias on juries.
xii, 198 p. : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-194) and index Capital crimes -- The death penalty for women nationally -- Earliest Ohio death penalty statutes -- The modern death penalty era in Ohio -- Patterns of death sentencing and executions -- Hester Foster : executed on February 9, 1844 -- Anna Marie Hahn : executed on December 7, 1938 -- Dovie Blanche Dean : executed on ...
