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Capital punishment / by Williams, Mary E.,1960-(CARDINAL)211352;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153) and index.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment;
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Murder at the Supreme Court : lethal crimes and landmark cases / by Clancy, Martin.(CARDINAL)402046; O'Brien, Tim(Law correspondent)(CARDINAL)612076;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-395) and index.A house of secrets -- The road to the death house -- The death penalty lives again -- Good guy/bad guy? same guy? : proportionality and the death penalty -- Black on white : race and the death penalty -- Mental capacity and "evolving standards of decency" -- Juvenile killers : should they die? -- Medicate to execute? -- Getting even : retribution and the death penalty -- Non-triggermen : just as guilty? -- The victims left behind : do their opinions count? -- The mechanics of death -- "Actual innocence" -- Ineffective assistance of counsel : worst crimes?-- or just worst lawyers? -- Closing arguments -- Appendix A. The Georgia death-penalty statute -- Appendix B. Bronstein victim impact statement.
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment;
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Courting death : the Supreme Court and capital punishment / by Steiker, Carol S.(Carol Susan),author.(CARDINAL)691124; Steiker, Jordan M.,author.(CARDINAL)561668;
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court.; Capital punishment; Judicial review; Discrimination in capital punishment; Capital punishment;
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Capital punishment mentally retarded and race bias : report to the 2001 session of the 2001 General Assembly of North Carolina / by North Carolina.General Assembly.Legislative Research Commission.(CARDINAL)143756;
Subjects: Discrimination in capital punishment; People with mental disabilities and crime;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The death penalty / by Stewart, Gail B.(Gail Barbara),1949-(CARDINAL)766113;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-92) and index.Reviews opposing arguments regarding the death penalty, including whether or not it is just, deters murder, and is applied fairly.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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House Select Committee on Racial Discrimination in Capital Cases : report to the 2012 session of the 2011 General Assembly of North Carolina. by North Carolina.General Assembly.House of Representatives.House Select Committee on Racial Discrimination in Capital Cases.(CARDINAL)311745;
Subjects: Discrimination in capital punishment; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Legal lynching : racism, injustice, and the death penalty / by Jackson, Jesse,1941-(CARDINAL)127290; Jackson, Jesse,Jr.,1965-(CARDINAL)640899;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; African Americans.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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The end of public execution : race, religion, and punishment in the American South / by Trotti, Michael Ayers,author.(CARDINAL)338444;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion. Intended to shame and intimidate, public executions after the Civil War had quite a different effect on southern Black communities. Crowds typically consisting of as many Black people as white behaved like congregations before a macabre pulpit, led in prayer and song by a Black minister on the scaffold. Black criminals often proclaimed their innocence and almost always their salvation. This turned the proceedings into public, mixed-race, and mixed-gender celebrations of Black religious authority and devotion. In response, southern states rewrote their laws to eliminate these crowds and this Black authority, ultimately turning to electrocutions in the bowels of state penitentiaries. As a wave of lynchings crested around the turn of the twentieth century, states transformed the ways that the South's white-dominated governments controlled legal capital punishment, making executions into private affairs witnessed only by white people. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Public executions; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment;
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Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / by Garland, David.(CARDINAL)738903;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-393) and index.Prologue : the exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in america -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Epilogue : discourse and death.
Subjects: Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment; Decentralization in government; Power (Social sciences);
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Rough justice : lynching and American society, 1874-1947 / by Pfeifer, Michael J.(Michael James),1968-(CARDINAL)281313;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Lynching; Culture conflict; Social control; Capital punishment; Discrimination in capital punishment;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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