Margaret Vandiver

Lethal Punishment

Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tying her research to contemporary debates over the death penalty, Vandiver argues that modern death sentences, like lynchings of the past, continue to be influenced by factors of race and place, and sentencing is comparably erratic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780813537290
• ISBN-10: 0813537290
• Artikelnr.: 21858329

Autorenporträt

Margaret Vandiver is a professor in the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Memphis.

Inhaltsangabe

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