Author: Tennessee. Governor (1796-1801 : Sevier)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Messages of the Governors of Tennessee: 1869-1883
Author: Tennessee. Governor (1796-1801 : Sevier)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Lethal Punishment
Author: Margaret VandiverPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813541069
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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.
Tennessee Historical Quarterly
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1260
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Messages to the Legislature
Author: Kansas. GovernorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 1820
Book Description
Includes annual, biennial and special messages, inaugural addresses and speeches, etc. before the Legislature.
The East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications
Author: East Tennessee Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee, East
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
A List of Tennessee State Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The West Tennessee Historical Society Papers
Author: West Tennessee Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee, West
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Publications
Author: East Tennessee Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee, East
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description