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Lethal Punishment
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Legal and Extralegal Executions in the American South; Chapter 2: Lethal Punishment in Tennessee and Florida; Chapter 3: Eleven Lynchings for Every Execution: Lethal Punishment in Northwest Tennessee; Chapter 4: "There Can Be Nothing but Death": Lethal Punishment for Rape in Shelby County, Tennessee; Chapter 5: "The First Time a Charge Like This Has Ever Been Tried in the Courts": The End of Lynching in Marion County, Florida; Chapter 6: The Mob and the Law: Mock Trials by Mobs and Sham Legal Trials.
- Chapter 7: "The First Duty of a Government": Lynching and the Fear of AnarchyChapter 8: When the Mob Ruled: The Lynching of Ell Persons; Chapter 9: Prevented Lynchings: White Intervention and Black Resistance; Chapter 10: "No Reason Why We Should Favor Lynching or Hanging": Efforts to End Legal and Extralegal Executions in Tennessee; Chapter 11: Conclusions; Appendix A: Sources and Methods; Appendix B: Inventory of Con.rmed Lynchings and Legal Executions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.