Race, class, and the death penalty
Subtitle: capital punishment in American history
By: Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb ; with the assistance of Vincent A. Lacey.
Contributors: Clubb, Jerome M., 1928-; Lacey, Vincent A.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780791474372
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States -- History; Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States -- History; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: The death penalty in national perspective; title: The colonial and revolutionary era; title: The early republic, 1786-1865; title: The south and the border, 1866-1945; title: The northeast, 1866-1945; title: The western regions, 1836-1945; title: Social perspectives; title: The death penalty after 1945; title: The death penalty in American history.