Dead Woman Walking

Name: Dead Woman Walking
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Dead Woman WalkingExecuted Women in England and Wales, 1900-55\nAuthor(s): Anette Ballinger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138737006, 978-1138737006\nSynopsis\nThis title was first published in 2000: Between 1900 and [tel] women were sentenced to death for murder in England and Wales. Only 12 of these women were actually executed. Thus, 91 per cent of women murderers had their sentence commuted, whereas if we examine the corresponding figures for men, only 39 per cent had their sentence commuted. It would appear that state servants working within the criminal justice system were far more reluctant to hang women than men. However, this text argues that a closer examination of this apparent discrepancy reveals it to be a misconception which has come about as a result of the statistics regarding infanticide. That is to say - unlike men - the vast majority of women murderers have killed their own child or children..