Lethal Punishment : : Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South / / Margaret Vandiver.
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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Vandiver, Margaret, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Lethal Punishment : Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2005] ©2005 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Legal and Extralegal Executions in the American South -- 2. Lethal Punishment in Tennessee and Florida -- 3. Eleven Lynchings for Every Execution: Lethal Punishment in Northwest Tennessee -- 4. “There Can Be Nothing but Death”: Lethal Punishment for Rape in Shelby County, Tennessee -- 5. “The First Time a Charge Like This Has Ever Been Tried in the Courts”: The End of Lynching in Marion County, Florida -- 6. The Mob and the Law: Mock Trials by Mobs and Sham Legal Trials -- 7. “The First Duty of a Government”: Lynching and the Fear of Anarchy -- 8. When the Mob Ruled: The Lynching of Ell Persons -- 9. Prevented Lynchings: White Intervention and Black Resistance -- 10. “No Reason Why We Should Favor Lynching or Hanging”: Efforts to End Legal and Extralegal Executions in Tennessee -- 11. Conclusions -- Appendix A: Sources and Methods -- Appendix B: Inventory of Confirmed Lynchings and Legal Executions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 eleven to one and many African Americans were lynched for racial caste offenses rather than for actual crimes. In contrast, in Shelby County, which included the growing city of Memphis, more men were legally executed than lynched. Marion County, Florida, demonstrated a firmly entrenched tradition of lynching for sexual assault that ended in the early 1930s with three legal death sentences in quick succession. With a critical eye to issues of location, circumstance, history, and race, Vandiver considers the ways that legal and extralegal processes imitated, influenced, and differed from each other. A series of case studies demonstrates a parallel between mock trials that were held by lynch mobs and legal trials that were rushed through the courts and followed by quick executions. 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Executions and executioners History Florida Ocala. Executions and executioners History Tennessee. Executions and executioners Florida Ocala History. Executions and executioners Tennessee History. Lynching History Florida Ocala. Lynching History Tennessee. Lynching Florida Ocala History. Lynching Tennessee History. Lynching. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110688610 print 9780813537283 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813541068 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813541068 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813541068/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Legal and Extralegal Executions in the American South -- 2. Lethal Punishment in Tennessee and Florida -- 3. Eleven Lynchings for Every Execution: Lethal Punishment in Northwest Tennessee -- 4. “There Can Be Nothing but Death”: Lethal Punishment for Rape in Shelby County, Tennessee -- 5. “The First Time a Charge Like This Has Ever Been Tried in the Courts”: The End of Lynching in Marion County, Florida -- 6. The Mob and the Law: Mock Trials by Mobs and Sham Legal Trials -- 7. “The First Duty of a Government”: Lynching and the Fear of Anarchy -- 8. When the Mob Ruled: The Lynching of Ell Persons -- 9. Prevented Lynchings: White Intervention and Black Resistance -- 10. “No Reason Why We Should Favor Lynching or Hanging”: Efforts to End Legal and Extralegal Executions in Tennessee -- 11. Conclusions -- Appendix A: Sources and Methods -- Appendix B: Inventory of Confirmed Lynchings and Legal Executions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Legal and Extralegal Executions in the American South -- 2. Lethal Punishment in Tennessee and Florida -- 3. Eleven Lynchings for Every Execution: Lethal Punishment in Northwest Tennessee -- 4. “There Can Be Nothing but Death”: Lethal Punishment for Rape in Shelby County, Tennessee -- 5. “The First Time a Charge Like This Has Ever Been Tried in the Courts”: The End of Lynching in Marion County, Florida -- 6. The Mob and the Law: Mock Trials by Mobs and Sham Legal Trials -- 7. “The First Duty of a Government”: Lynching and the Fear of Anarchy -- 8. When the Mob Ruled: The Lynching of Ell Persons -- 9. Prevented Lynchings: White Intervention and Black Resistance -- 10. “No Reason Why We Should Favor Lynching or Hanging”: Efforts to End Legal and Extralegal Executions in Tennessee -- 11. Conclusions -- Appendix A: Sources and Methods -- Appendix B: Inventory of Confirmed Lynchings and Legal Executions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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