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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kotch, Seth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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