Murder on Trial

Robert Asher is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Connecticut. Lawrence B. Goodheart is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and author of Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry. Alan Rogers is Professor of History at Boston College.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Adjudicating Homicide: The Legal Framework and Social NormsRobert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers Race 2. Cross-Cultural "Murther" and Retribution in Colonial New EnglandJohn J. Navin 3. Jim Crow Justice, the Richmond Planet, and the Murder of Lucy PollardMichael Ayers Trotti 4. Justice Denied: Race and the 1982 Murder Trial of Mumia Abu-JamalDave Lindorff Mental Competency 5. Murder and Minors: Changing Standards in the Criminal Law of Connecticut, 1650-1853Nancy H. Steenburg 6. Murder and Madness: The Ambiguity of Moral Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut Lawrence B. Goodheart 7. Mad Men and Wronged Women: Murder and the Insanity Defense in Massachusetts, 1844-2000Alan Rogers Gender and Class Norms 8. Murder by Inches: Shakers, Family, and the Death of Elder Caleb DyerElizabeth A. De Wolfe 9. "He Has Ravished my Poor Simple, Innocent Wife!": Exploring the Meaning of Honor in the Murder Trials of George W. ColeLaura-Eve Moss 10. Bodies of Evidence: Inquest Photography in the Trial of Lizzie BordenTiffany Johnson Bidler List of Contributors Index