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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.