Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998

Kathleen A. O'Shea

Feb 1999 · Greenwood Publishing Group

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Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the stories of the women who have been executed and those currently awaiting their fate on death row.

This work takes a historical look at women and the death penalty in the United States from 1900 to 1998. It gives the reader a look at the penal codes in the various states regarding the death penalty and the personal stories of women who have been executed or who are currently on death row. As Americans continue to debate the enforcement of the death penalty, the issues of race and gender as they relate to the death penalty are also debated. This book offers a unique perspective to a recurring sociopolitical issue.

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To whom of all that have either read this article or wrote this article on marie porter. I must say that one of the important names was mistaken. The man who assisted in this horrible act of murder was not Anthony Giancola, but in fact, Angelo Giancola. I don't have all important information on this, but I know that his name was Angelo. The reason for my knowledge of this is because Marie Porter was my great grandmother, my grandmother Eldora was her daughter. My grandma was ashamed of her mother for what she had did, therefore we as a family respected her on speaking much about this! She said after she was dead that we could reach out for more facts. Unfortunately, my grandma Bennett (Porter) has been gone for more than ten years and still is deeply missed! Unlike her mother, who did not leave a positive legacy for us, Eldora (Porter) Bennett was the best grandma that anyone could ask for!!!

i think that this author needs to do better reserch before she seeks to be published. The case of Teresa Faye Whittington for the MURDER of Cheryl Marie Soto is very poorly mentioned in this so called "book". In Women and the death penalty in the United States, 1900-1998‎ Kathleen A. O'Shea makes Ms. Whittington out to be an innocent young girl who was just to stupid to know what she was doing when at "19 years old" she took the lives of Cheryl Marie Soto and her unborn child. When in fact Ms. Whittington knew just what she was doing when she went into Cheryl's home while she was in the shower and shot her in the back of the neck. Ms. Whittington also knew what she was doing when she went back into the home to shoot Cheryl at point blank range in the forehead while Cheryl begged her not to kill her. Also let it stand that she did not turn herself in, rather the police came to the home of her mother the next day and took her into custody. So just so we are all clear on this matter Teresa Faye Whittington deserved far more than what she received. This being said that woman (and i use this term loosely) should rot in the jail cell that she is in at this very moment. TO: MS. O'SHEA, Please have enough respect for the family that still grieves the lose of two very precious lives to do better research next time, and DO NOT try to make MONSTERS look like sweet little girls who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. - E.J.

Ms. O'Shea is not accurate in describing the murder that Sharon Wiggins committed. The man was not deaf!