Lethal punishment [electronic resource] : lynchings and legal executions in the South /
Vandiver, Margaret.
Lethal punishment lynchings and legal executions in the South / [electronic resource] : Margaret Vandiver. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007, c2006. - ACLS Humanities E-Book .
Description based on t.p. screen of July 13, 2007. "This electronic book contains the following additional features not available in the print version: Links to external informational resources, 160 images (38 in color)."--Copyright and Permissions. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic text and image data.
Mode of access: Intranet.
2027/heb90036 hdl
--History.--Tennessee--History.--Tennessee--History.--Florida--Ocala--History.--Florida--Ocala
Southern States.
Lynching Executions and executioners Lynching Executions and executioners
Lethal punishment lynchings and legal executions in the South / [electronic resource] : Margaret Vandiver. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007, c2006. - ACLS Humanities E-Book .
Description based on t.p. screen of July 13, 2007. "This electronic book contains the following additional features not available in the print version: Links to external informational resources, 160 images (38 in color)."--Copyright and Permissions. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic text and image data.
Mode of access: Intranet.
2027/heb90036 hdl
--History.--Tennessee--History.--Tennessee--History.--Florida--Ocala--History.--Florida--Ocala
Southern States.
Lynching Executions and executioners Lynching Executions and executioners