Murder on trial 1620-2002 (State University of New York Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Adjudicating homicide : the legal framework and social norms / Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers -- Cross-cultural "Murther" and retribution in colonial New England / John J. Navin -- Jim Crow justice, the Richmond Planet, and the murder of Lucy Pollard / Michael A. Trotti -- Justice denied : race and the 1982 murder trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal / Dave Lindorff -- Murder and minors : changing standards in the criminal law of Connecticut, 1650-1853 / Nancy H. Steenburg -- Murder and madness : the ambiguity of moral insanity in nineteenth-century Connecticut / Lawrence B. Goodheart -- Mad men and wronged women : murder and the insanity defense in Massachusetts, 1844-2000 / Alan Rogers -- Murder by inches : Shakers, family, and the death of Elder Caleb Dyer / Elizabeth A. De Wolfe -- "He has ravished my poor, simple, innocent wife!" : exploring the meaning of honor in the murder trials of George W. Cole / Laura-Eve Moss -- Bodies of evidence : inquest photography in the trial of Lizzie Borden / Tiffany Johnson Bidler