Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver

Author:: Vandiver, Margaret
Published:: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Physical Description:: xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

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.

Subject(s):

Lynching—Tennessee—History
Executions and executioners—Tennessee—History
Lynching—Florida—Ocala—History
Executions and executioners—Florida—Ocala—History
Southern States

ISBN:

0813537282 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813537290 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 203-273) and index.

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