Author: Ephraim K. Avery
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Trial of Rev. Mr. Avery
Author: Ephraim K. Avery
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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A Report of the Trial of the Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Rhode Island
Author: Ephraim K. Avery
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Category : Acquittals
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Category : Acquittals
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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A Vindication of the Result of the Trial of Rev. Ephraim K. Avery
Author: Timothy Merritt
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Category : Acquittals
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Acquittals
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Murder at Smutty Nose
Author: Edmund Lester Pearson
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Pamphlets, Religious
The Spectacle of Death
Author: Kristin Boudreau
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 161592745X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In 1787, Benjamin Rush cautioned that public punishments were dangerous to the social and legal authority of the new nation. For Rush, irrepressible human sentiments all but guaranteed that public punishments would turn spectators against the institutions responsible for the punishments. Although public executions of criminals ended early in the 19th century, debate over the morality of capital punishment has continued to this day.In this unique and fascinating glimpse into public reactions to prominent executions, from colonial times to the 1990s, Kristin Boudreau focuses on the central role of populist, often ephemeral literary forms in shaping attitudes toward capital punishment. Surveying popular poems, ballads, plays, and novels, she shows that, at key times of social unrest in American history, many Americans have felt excluded by the political and legal processes, and have turned instead to inexpensive literary forms of expression in an attempt to change the course of history.Among the significant capital cases that the author discusses are: the Haymarket anarchist trial of 1886; the lynching of Leo Frank in 1914; the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 and its effects on the Civil Rights movement; Norman Mailer''s treatment of the Gary Gilmore case in the 1979 novel, The Executioner''s Song; and the 1998 execution of Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer who became a born-again Christian on death row.In the concluding chapter, Boudreau examines contemporary writers, musicians, actors, and other artists who are using their artistic media to influence official policies of states that permit capital punishment.By examining these neglected texts, Boudreau brings to light a compelling story about ordinary Americans fighting an entrenched legal system at times of great national crisis.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 161592745X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In 1787, Benjamin Rush cautioned that public punishments were dangerous to the social and legal authority of the new nation. For Rush, irrepressible human sentiments all but guaranteed that public punishments would turn spectators against the institutions responsible for the punishments. Although public executions of criminals ended early in the 19th century, debate over the morality of capital punishment has continued to this day.In this unique and fascinating glimpse into public reactions to prominent executions, from colonial times to the 1990s, Kristin Boudreau focuses on the central role of populist, often ephemeral literary forms in shaping attitudes toward capital punishment. Surveying popular poems, ballads, plays, and novels, she shows that, at key times of social unrest in American history, many Americans have felt excluded by the political and legal processes, and have turned instead to inexpensive literary forms of expression in an attempt to change the course of history.Among the significant capital cases that the author discusses are: the Haymarket anarchist trial of 1886; the lynching of Leo Frank in 1914; the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 and its effects on the Civil Rights movement; Norman Mailer''s treatment of the Gary Gilmore case in the 1979 novel, The Executioner''s Song; and the 1998 execution of Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer who became a born-again Christian on death row.In the concluding chapter, Boudreau examines contemporary writers, musicians, actors, and other artists who are using their artistic media to influence official policies of states that permit capital punishment.By examining these neglected texts, Boudreau brings to light a compelling story about ordinary Americans fighting an entrenched legal system at times of great national crisis.
Wicked Conduct
Author: Rory Raven
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614234833
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The mentalist, mindbinder, and author of Haunted Providence delves into the 19th-century murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. “If I should be missing, enquire of the Rev. Mr. Avery of Bristol, he will know where I am.” This scribbled note belonged to Sarah M. Cornell, written the day her body was found hanged in a rural pasture in Tiverton, Rhode Island. An unmarried young woman of limited means, Sarah was four months pregnant, and a married Methodist minister stood accused as the father. Local authorities grew skeptical of Sarah’s apparent suicide as Reverend Avery’s conduct appeared increasingly suspect, and eventually the extensive evidence of their tortured relationship set off a groundswell of public interest and media attention never before seen in 1830s New England. This tragic crime left the nation clamoring for justice and became one of early America’s most sensational murder trials.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614234833
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The mentalist, mindbinder, and author of Haunted Providence delves into the 19th-century murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. “If I should be missing, enquire of the Rev. Mr. Avery of Bristol, he will know where I am.” This scribbled note belonged to Sarah M. Cornell, written the day her body was found hanged in a rural pasture in Tiverton, Rhode Island. An unmarried young woman of limited means, Sarah was four months pregnant, and a married Methodist minister stood accused as the father. Local authorities grew skeptical of Sarah’s apparent suicide as Reverend Avery’s conduct appeared increasingly suspect, and eventually the extensive evidence of their tortured relationship set off a groundswell of public interest and media attention never before seen in 1830s New England. This tragic crime left the nation clamoring for justice and became one of early America’s most sensational murder trials.
The New Measures
Author: Ted A. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052187131X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This 2007 book debates about religion and democracy through a cultural history of nineteenth-century revival practice.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052187131X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This 2007 book debates about religion and democracy through a cultural history of nineteenth-century revival practice.
Murder Most Foul
Author: Karen HALTTUNEN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038177
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .