NEW BOOKS: Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803 – 2005

Researcher and for­mer law pro­fes­sor Harriet C. Frazier has pro­duced a thor­ough inves­tiga­tive work on the death penal­ty in Missouri: Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803 – 2005: A History and Comprehensive Registry of Legal Executions, Pardons, and Commutations. Building on the research of Watt Espy, Frazier dis­cov­ered accounts of many addi­tion­al exe­cu­tions in the state, espe­cial­ly in its ear­li­er years. She devotes chap­ters to such impor­tant areas as exe­cu­tions of Native Americans, blacks, juve­niles and women, and exe­cu­tions for the crime of rape. The book is both his­tor­i­cal and up-to-date, includ­ing a dis­cus­sion of inno­cent defen­dants who have recent­ly been freed from Missouri’s death row.
(McFarland & Co. 2006). See History and the Espy File. See also Books.