From lynch mobs to the killing state
Subtitle: race and the death penalty in America
By: edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.
Contributors: Ogletree, Charles J.; Sarat, Austin.
Series: The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
Publisher: New York University
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780814740217; 9780814740224
Subjects: Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States; African American criminals -- Civil rights; Lynching -- United States; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Capital punishment as legal lynching / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn; title: Making race matter in death matters / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.; title: Traces of slavery : race and the death penalty in historical perspective / Stuart Banner; title: The role of victim's race and geography on death sentencing : some recent data from Illinois / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce; title: Death in "whiteface" : modern race minstrels, death penalty judgments, and the culture of American apartheid / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner; title: Stereotypes, prejudice, and life and death decision-making : lessons from laypersons in an experimental setting / Mona Lynch; title: Discrimination, death and denial : the tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty / Stephen B. Bright; title: The rhetoric of race in the "new abolitionism" / Austin Sarat.