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Lethal State : A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina /

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
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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.