| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Murdered Family Members and Other Schemes -- Chapter 1. Viragos and Unnatural Mothers -- Nineteenth-Century Mothers -- Chapter 2. The Demons Decline -- Twentieth-Century Mothers -- Chapter 3. Husbands and Other Family Members -- Chapter 4. Other Schemes -- Part II. Jazz Journalism and the Execution Story As Drama -- Chapter 5. Excesses in 1920s Louisiana -- Chapter 6. Female Mass Murderers in the Late 1930s -- Chapter 7. Execution Stories As Serial Dramas -- Part III. Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Preference -- Chapter 8. Pre-Civil War Press and Slave Executions -- Chapter 9. Twentieth-Century Black Defendants -- Chapter 10. The Irish -- More Animal Than Human? -- Chapter 11. Sexual Preference -- Changes during the Past Fifty Years -- Part IV. Hollywood, Female "Tough Guys," and Love Triangles -- Chapter 12. Southern California Defendants -- Chapter 13. The Female "Tough Guy" -- Chapter 14. Little Attention for "First" Executions -- Chapter 15. Love Triangles -- Chapter 16. Little Support for Changes to -- Execution Laws -- Chapter 17. Government Secrecy of Executions -- under Federal Authority -- Part V. The Late 1990s and Beyond -- Chapter 18. The High-Tech Media at the End of the -- Twentieth Century -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index. |
