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Identifier	Thesis 2014
Author	Pollard, Heather Ann, 1977-
Title	Women executed by the state of Connecticut / Heather Pollard
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2009
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The Purpose of this thesis was to add to the general information about the women executed by the state of Connecticut. It also sought to examine why the only executions of females took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The subject was approached by first identifying the women executed, and researching these cases in the historical court records of the Connecticut State Archives. Additional research was conducted in historical newspaper databases, and secondary sources. From the historical records and secondary sources I constructed a timeline and looked for patterns in the crimes females were executed for and dates of female executions. I compared my finding first to comparative works of Massachusetts and of national studies. Then I reviewed the work of historians and looked for insights as to why there were certain time periods in which Connecticut was far more active in the execution of women than in others. The result of my research was that I identified two periods in which the state was most likely to execute women. These finding regarding execution patterns of women in Connecticut supported historical works that explored legal and social changes that occurred in these same periods. There has not been an adequate study of the implementation of the death penalty in Connecticut’s history nor an accurate accounting of exactly how many men and women have been executed by legal authority in the colony and then state’s history.
Subject	Capital punishment -- Connecticut -- History Executions (Law) -- Connecticut -- History Women prisoners -- Connecticut -- History
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Hermes, Katherine A.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	328427421
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