Myth of the hanging tree : stories of crime and punishment in territorial New Mexico /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tórrez, Robert J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Capital punishment > New Mexico > History. Hanging > New Mexico > History. New Mexico > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

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".