Kotch, Seth,

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.


Electronic Books.

HV8699 / .L484 2019