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The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison
s re-creation of the case from murder to trial to aftermath casts an eye forward to our own love-hate affair with celebrity crimes and our abiding ambivalence about domestic violence abuse as a defense for murder.
Hardcover, 316 pages
Published
May 1st 2007
by UNP - Nebraska
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The book purports to deal with the "first" woman sentenced to death in California; she's actually the third, but I suppose first sounds better. It's a well-researched book, and contains a fascinating view of life (particuarly for an intelligent but rural woman) fifty or a hundred years ago.
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