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Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Seth Kotch
- Included Title
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- HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2020]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 1469649861, 9781469649894, 146964987X, 9781469649863, 9781469649887, 1469649896, 9781469649870
- OCLC
- on1082137033
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-294) and index.
- Introduction : a history of the present -- 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 -- Conclusion : a history of failure?