Legal Executions in California

A Comprehensive Registry, 1851-2005

Sheila O’Hare, Irene Berry, Jesse Silva (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

624 Seiten

2012
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-6436-4 (ISBN)

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Provides comprehensive coverage of legal executions performed in the state of California from 1851 until the present. Entries are organised by year of execution and contain the felon's name, any known aliases, race, age at death and a detailed narrative of the crime that resulted in capital punishment. Race and age of victims are provided when available.

This reference book provides comprehensive coverage of legal executions performed in the state of California from 1851 (when the Criminal Practices Act first authorized executions) until the present. It includes all cases in which legal processes appear to have been observed and the resulting execution was carried out by an authorized representative of a county or the state. Entries are organized by year of execution and contain the felon's name, any known aliases, race, age at death and a detailed narrative of the crime that resulted in capital punishment. Race and age of victims are provided when available.

Sheila O’Hare is an attorney and a social sciences bibliographer at the University of California. Irene Berry is a reference librarian at the Naval Postgraduate School with a background in archival collections. Jesse Silva is a librarian at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Photograph Credits

Preface

The Registry

Recent Developments

Index

Zusatzinfo	552 photos, references, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1093 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7864-6436-4 / 0786464364
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-6436-4 / 9780786464364
Zustand	Neuware