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Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vandiver, Margaret
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Executions and executioners > Florida > Ocala > History.
Lynching > Florida > Ocala > History.
Executions and executioners > Tennessee > History.
Lynching > Tennessee > History.
Southern States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.