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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vandiver, Margaret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lynching.
Executions and executioners.
Lynchage > Tennessee > Histoire.
Executions and executioners > Florida > Ocala > History.
Lynching > Florida > Ocala > History.
Executions and executioners > Tennessee > History.
Lynching > Tennessee > History.
Tennessee.
Southern States.
Florida > Ocala.
États-Unis (Sud)
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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, challenging the assumption that executions consistently grew out of-and replaced-lynchings. Vandiver begins by examining the incidence of these practices in three culturally and geographically distinct southern regions. In rural northwest Tennessee, lynchings outnumbered legal executions by e.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780813541068

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