Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vandiver, Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Lynching > Tennessee > History.
Executions and executioners > Tennessee > History.
Lynching > Florida > Ocala > History.
Executions and executioners > Florida > Ocala > History.
Lynchage > Tennessee > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Executions and executioners.
Lynching.
Southern States
États-Unis (Sud)
Florida > Ocala.
Southern States.
Tennessee.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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