Lethal State (eBook)

A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina

Seth Kotch (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
320 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
9781469649887 (ISBN)

Autor

Seth Kotch is assistant professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones, 1 graph, 3 tables
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Capital Punishment in North Carolina • clemency for capital crimes • commutations of death sentences • criminal justice and race • criminal justice in North Carolina • death penalty custom • Death Penalty in North Carolina • death penalty in the American South • death penalty law • Execution in North Carolina • execution methods • execution rituals • gender and the death penalty • hanging • lynching • lynching and the death penalty • lynching in North Carolina • lynching in the American South • mercy in the criminal justice system • Pain and Suffering • politics of punishment • punishment for crime • punishment for crime in North Carolina • race and the death penalty • racial disparities in commutations • racial disparities in death sentences • suffering and the death penalty • technologies of execution • the electric chair • the gas chamber • the politics of the death penalty • the rise and fall of capital punishment • victims of crime
• ISBN-13: 9781469649887 / 9781469649887