Author: Harry M. WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Supplement to Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia
Author: Harry M. WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
The End of Public Execution
Author: Michael Ayers TrottiPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469670429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion. Intended to shame and intimidate, public executions after the Civil War had quite a different effect on southern Black communities. Crowds typically consisting of as many Black people as white behaved like congregations before a macabre pulpit, led in prayer and song by a Black minister on the scaffold. Black criminals often proclaimed their innocence and almost always their salvation. This turned the proceedings into public, mixed-race, and mixed-gender celebrations of Black religious authority and devotion. In response, southern states rewrote their laws to eliminate these crowds and this Black authority, ultimately turning to electrocutions in the bowels of state penitentiaries. As a wave of lynchings crested around the turn of the twentieth century, states transformed the ways that the South's white-dominated governments controlled legal capital punishment, making executions into private affairs witnessed only by white people.
The Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1955, Hearings Before ... 83-2, on H.R. 9936
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1692
Book Description
New American Supplement to the Latest Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
New American Supplement to the Latest Editions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica
Author: Day Otis KelloggThe Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1955
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
FCC Record
Author: United States. Federal Communications CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill
Author: United States. Congress. House. AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description