"Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment ..." by H.W. Allen and J.M. Clubb (Repost)
"Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History" by Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb
with assistance from Vincent A. Lacey
State University of New York Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0791474372 9780791474372 9781435648623 | 256 pages | PDF | 8 MB
with assistance from Vincent A. Lacey
State University of New York Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0791474372 9780791474372 9781435648623 | 256 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history. This book is concerned with the long-term trends in the use of capital punishment in the United States, and in areas that would become part of the United States, from the colonial period onward.
The book focuses on four basic questions:
How frequently has the death penalty been used, and how has the frequency of use changed?
Where was the death penalty used most frequently?
What were the offenses charged?
What were the characteristics of the executed?
As will become clear, the first two questions can be addressed more successfully than the third and fourth. All four, however, are fraught with serious ambiguities.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Death Penalty in National Perspective
Chapter 2 The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
Chapter 3 The Early Republic, 1786–1865
Chapter 4 The South and the Border, 1866–1945
Chapter 5 The Northeast, 1866–1945
Chapter 6 The Western Regions, 1836–1945
Chapter 7 Social Perspectives
Chapter 8 The Death Penalty after 1945
Chapter 9 The Death Penalty in American History
Appendix
Notes
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks