Lethal punishment
Subtitle: lynchings and legal executions in the South
By: Margaret Vandiver.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813537283; 9780813537290
Subjects: Lynching -- Tennessee -- History.; Executions and executioners -- Tennessee -- History.; Lynching -- Florida -- Ocala -- History.; Executions and executioners -- Florida -- Ocala -- History.; Southern States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legal and extralegal executions in the American South; title: Lethal punishment in Tennessee and Florida; title: Eleven lynchings for every execution: lethal punishment in northwest Tennessee; title: "There can be nothing but death": lethal punishment for rape in Shelby County, Tennessee; title: "The first time a charge like this has ever been tried in the courts": the end of lynching in Marion County, Florida; title: The mob and the law: mock trials by mobs and sham legal trials; title: "The first duty of a government": lynching and the fear of anarchy; title: When the mob ruled: the lynching of Ell Persons; title: Prevented lynchings: white intervention and black resistance; title: "No reason why we should favor lynching or hanging": efforts to end legal and extralegal executions in Tennessee.