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The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This ...

Bringing together the major death penalty cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court and the legal issues related to the death penalty, this text classifies the cases according to ...

Executed Women of the 20th and 21st Centuries provides a look into the lives, crimes, and executions of women during the 20th and 21st centuries. Rather than dealing with these ...

Taking positions both for and against abortion, 11 distinguished constitutional scholars rewrite the Supreme Court's opinions in this landmark case in light of 30 years of ...

Through interviews with prominent legal academics, Outsiders Within presents the trials and accomplishments of black women law professors who began to enter the legal academy ...