September 20, 2004
UCSC bibliographer receives $7,500 grant
from UC Library Association
Sheila O'Hare
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Social sciences bibliographer Sheila O'Hare has been awarded
a $7,500 competitive research grant from the Librarians Association
of the University of California (LAUC), the librarians' equivalent
of the Academic Senate. She will compile a chronological record
of all California legal executions, beginning with the authorization
of the death penalty in the Criminal Practices Act of 1851 and
continuing to the present day.
OHare argues that even though the debate over the death
penalty is ongoing and far from settled, a comprehensive reference
source for California legal executions does not exist. Her research
will culminate in a book containing a short narrative of each
case and its unique legal, procedural, or sociological issues;
demographic information for the executed individual and victims;
images; and bibliographic references. OHares publication
will be structured to benefit academic and public libraries,
death penalty opponents and advocates, legal practitioners,
historians, criminal justice scholars, and the general public.
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