Table of Contents
Introduction
Women as Killers
- American Serial Killer: Aileen Wuornos
- The Greenlease Kidnapping
Women on Death Row
- Changing the Message of the Death Penalty via State Sanctioned
Suicide: Christina Riggs
- A Brief History of the Execution of Women
- Methods of Execution Pertaining to Women
- Gender Disparity of the Death Penalty
- Death Row Conditions
Race and the Death Penalty
- The “Lynching Era”
- Racial disparity and the Death Penalty
- Rape and the Death Penalty
Supreme Court Cases Regarding Race
- McCleskey v. Kemp
- Furman v. Georgia
Conclusion
- Lessons Learned from the Study of Women and Race
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Ashley Simpson is a per-course American history instructor at Missouri State University, Ozarks Technical Community College, and Drury University, in Springfield, Missouri. Simpson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Drury University and a Master of arts degree in U.S. and world history from Missouri State University. Simpson was recognized as Drury University's 2018 winner of the Drury Award for best original research project in undergraduate history, and Greene County Historical Society's 2018 and 2019 recipient of the GCHS Research Fellowship. She plans to continue to pursue her doctoral degree in American history with specialties in medical history at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is a mother to five beautiful children with a passion for travel, archival research, and writing.
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