Executions in the United States, 1608-1991
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Author | : M. Watt Espy |
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Genre | : Capital punishment |
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Author | : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research |
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Author | : M. Watt Espy |
Publisher | : Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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This study furnishes data on executions performed in the United States under civil authority. It includes a description of each individual executed and the circumstances surrounding the crime for which the person was convicted. Variables include age, race, name, sex, and occupation of the offender, place, jurisdiction, date and method of execution and the crime for which the offender was executed.
Author | : Howard W. Allen |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0791478343 |
Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2012-05-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0309254167 |
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers have reached widely varying, even contradictory, conclusions. Some studies have concluded that the threat of capital punishment deters murders, saving large numbers of lives; other studies have concluded that executions actually increase homicides; still others, that executions have no effect on murder rates. Commentary among researchers, advocates, and policymakers on the scientific validity of the findings has sometimes been acrimonious. Against this backdrop, the National Research Council report Deterrence and the Death Penalty assesses whether the available evidence provides a scientific basis for answering questions of if and how the death penalty affects homicide rates. This new report from the Committee on Law and Justice concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates. The key question is whether capital punishment is less or more effective as a deterrent than alternative punishments, such as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Yet none of the research that has been done accounted for the possible effect of noncapital punishments on homicide rates. The report recommends new avenues of research that may provide broader insight into any deterrent effects from both capital and noncapital punishments.
Author | : National Institute of Justice (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : William D. Carrigan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317983963 |
The history of lynching and mob violence has become a subject of considerable scholarly and public interest in recent years. Popular works by James Allen, Philip Dray, and Leon Litwack have stimulated new interest in the subject. A generation of new scholars, sparked by these works and earlier monographs, are in the process of both enriching and challenging the traditional narrative of lynching in the United States. This volume contains essays by ten scholars at the forefront of the movement to broaden and deepen our understanding of mob violence in the United States. These essays range from the Reconstruction to World War Two, analyze lynching in multiple regions of the United States, and employ a wide range of methodological approaches. The authors explore neglected topics such as: lynching in the Mid-Atlantic, lynching in Wisconsin, lynching photography, mob violence against southern white women, black lynch mobs, grassroots resistance to racial violence by African Americans, nineteenth century white southerners who opposed lynching, and the creation of 'lynching narratives' by southern white newspapers. This book was first published as a special issue of American Nineteenth Century History