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Steelwater, Eliza.
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Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
Executions and executioners -- United States -- History.
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The hangman's knot :...
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The hangman's knot : lynching, legal execution, and America's struggle with the death penalty / Eliza Steelwater.
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Steelwater, Eliza.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2003.
Subjects
Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
Executions and executioners -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
081334042X (alk. paper) :
Description:
ix, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: the hanging of George Woods -- "The right type of case": capital punishment, prisoners without capital, and public support for executions -- The worst of the worst: Puritans, punishment and political power -- "A vast circle of people": authority, public execution, and crowd control -- "Darkness, threatening, ruins, terror": the penitentiary and capital punishment -- The will of the people: early reactions against capital punishment -- Legacy of conquest: Civil War, slavery and the first Ku Klux Klan -- Shivaree: punishment by mob -- "Let each man be his own executioner": rise of San Francisco vigilantes -- Takeover: return of the San Francisco vigilantes -- Boots, bullets, and big bucks: the vigilante myth -- "Beaten all to smash": labor, the Robber Barons, and the law -- "Death and destruction of the system": labor on trial -- White on white terrorism after the Civil War -- "Serving your racial needs": Colonel Simmons's Ku Klux Klan -- "Foreigners and Negroes": discrimination, lynching, and the penalty of death -- A clean, well-lighted place: death penalty reform in the Progressive Era -- "Evolving standards of decency": civil rights and abolition of the death penalty -- The endless end of capital punishment.
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