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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Autor principal: Kotch, Seth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Lynching.
Capital punishment.
African Americans > Civil rights.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Lynchage.
Peine de mort > Caroline du Nord > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Peine de mort > Caroline du Nord > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Capital punishment > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
Capital punishment > North Carolina > History > 20th century.
North Carolina.
Caroline du Nord > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
North Carolina > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Sumario: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 sought to remake its image as modern and business-progressive in the early twentieth century, the question of execution preoccupied lawmakers, reformers, and state boosters alike. In this book, Seth Kotch recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina from its colonial origins to the present. He tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies. Through this lens, Lethal State helps explain not only Americans' deep and growing uncertainty about the death penalty but also their commitment to it. Kotch argues that Jim Crow justice continued to reign in the guise of a modernizing, orderly state and offers essential insight into the relationship between race, violence, and power in North Carolina. The history of capital punishment in North Carolina, as in other states wrestling with similar issues, emerges as one of state-building through lethal punishment. --! From publisher's description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9781469649894

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