TY  - GEN
AU  - Vandiver,Margaret
TI  - Lethal punishment: lynchings and legal executions in the South 
T2  - ACLS Humanities E-Book
PY  - 2007///, c2006
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - History
KW  - Florida
KW  - Ocala
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Lynching
KW  - Executions and executioners
N1  - 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; Transcribed from; Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver; New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006; xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm; 9780813537283; 9780813537290
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb90036
ER  -