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Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South /

Why did some offenses in the South end in mob lynchings while similar crimes led to legal executions? Why did still other cases have nonlethal outcomes? In this well-researched and timely book, Margaret Vandiver explores the complex relationship between these two forms of lethal punishment, challeng...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vandiver, Margaret (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Legal and extralegal executions in the American South
  • Lethal punishment in Tennessee and Florida
  • Eleven lynchings for every execution: lethal punishment in northwest Tennessee
  • "There can be nothing but death": lethal punishment for rape in Shelby County, Tennessee
  • "The first time a charge like this has ever been tried in the courts": the end of lynching in Marion County, Florida
  • The mob and the law: mock trials by mobs and sham legal trials
  • "The first duty of a government": lynching and the fear of anarchy
  • When the mob ruled: the lynching of Ell Persons
  • Prevented lynchings: white intervention and black resistance
  • "No reason why we should favor lynching or hanging": efforts to end legal and extralegal executions in Tennessee.