Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina /
Seth Kotch.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- Justice, Power, and Politics .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The general sense of justice : lynching and the death penalty, 1880-1950 -- Without howling, without squirming : reinventing the death penalty in Jim Crow North Carolina, 1910-1936 -- I cannot allow this boy to be executed : the essential role of mercy, 1910-1949 -- Intelligent and civilized sentiments : activism, discretion, and the decline of the death penalty, 1941-1961 -- An emotional craving : the revival of the death penalty in North Carolina, 1961-1984.
9781469649894
Capital punishment--History--North Carolina--20th century. Capital punishment--History--North Carolina--19th century. Lynching. African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.