Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina /

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For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state soug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kotch, Seth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Justice, power, and politics.
Temas:
1800-1999
Capital punishment > North Carolina > History > 20th century.
Capital punishment > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
Lynching.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Peine de mort > Caroline du Nord > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Peine de mort > Caroline du Nord > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Lynchage.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans > Civil rights.
Capital punishment.
Race relations.
North Carolina > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Caroline du Nord > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
North Carolina.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The general sense of justice: lynching and the death penalty, 1880-1950
  • Without howling, without squirming : reinventing the death penalty in Jim Crow North Carolina, 1910-1936
  • I cannot allow this boy to be executed : the essential role of mercy, 1910-1949
  • Intelligent and civilized sentiments : activism, discretion, and the decline of the death penalty, 1941-1961
  • An emotional craving : the revival of the death penalty in North Carolina, 1961-1984.

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