RT Book
T1 Myth of the hanging tree: stories of crime and punishment in territorial New Mexico
A1 Tórrez, Robert J.
LA English
PP Albuquerque
PB University of New Mexico Press
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/540006939
AB Myth of the hanging tree -- Legal hangings and capital punishment in New Mexico -- Two of history's forgotten desperados -- Murder, politics, and justice in frontier New Mexico : the framing of Perfecto Padilla -- The man who was hanged twice -- Witness to a hanging -- Shoot-out at Gallegos Canyon -- Judicial gems : the art of judicial sentences in territorial New Mexico -- "Young, ignorant, and immoral" : murder by poison at Hillsboro, New Mexico -- Paula Angel : a search for the "only woman ever hanged in New Mexico" -- The old penitentiary : New Mexico's "first new public building"
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-179) and index
CN HV8699.U6
SN 0826343791
SN 9780826343796
K1 Capital Punishment : New Mexico : History
K1 Hanging : New Mexico : History
K1 New Mexico : Social conditions
K1 New Mexico : Erhängen : Geschichte
K1 Todesstrafe
K1 Lynchjustiz