The Resource Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch
Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch
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- Summary
- For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state sought to remake its image as modern and business-progressive in the early twentieth century, the question of execution preoccupied lawmakers, reformers, and state boosters alike. In this book, Seth Kotch recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina from its colonial origins to the present. He tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies. Through this lens, Lethal State helps explain not only Americans' deep and growing uncertainty about the death penalty but also their commitment to it. Kotch argues that Jim Crow justice continued to reign in the guise of a modernizing, orderly state and offers essential insight into the relationship between race, violence, and power in North Carolina. The history of capital punishment in North Carolina, as in other states wrestling with similar issues, emerges as one of state-building through lethal punishment. -- {u2021}c From publisher{u2019}s description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction : a history of the present
- 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
- Conclusion : a history of failure?
- Isbn
- 9781469649863
- Label
- Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina
- Title
- Lethal state
- Title remainder
- a history of the death penalty in North Carolina
- Statement of responsibility
- Seth Kotch
- Subject
-
- History
- Capital punishment
- History
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Lynching
- Capital punishment -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
- Capital punishment -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century
- North Carolina
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- Lynching
- Race relations
- North Carolina -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century
- Capital punishment
- Lynching
- North Carolina
- Race relations
- 1800-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state sought to remake its image as modern and business-progressive in the early twentieth century, the question of execution preoccupied lawmakers, reformers, and state boosters alike. In this book, Seth Kotch recounts the history of the death penalty in North Carolina from its colonial origins to the present. He tracks the attempts to reform and sanitize the administration of death in a state as dedicated to its image as it was to rigid racial hierarchies. Through this lens, Lethal State helps explain not only Americans' deep and growing uncertainty about the death penalty but also their commitment to it. Kotch argues that Jim Crow justice continued to reign in the guise of a modernizing, orderly state and offers essential insight into the relationship between race, violence, and power in North Carolina. The history of capital punishment in North Carolina, as in other states wrestling with similar issues, emerges as one of state-building through lethal punishment. -- {u2021}c From publisher{u2019}s description
- Cataloging source
- NcU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kotch, Seth
- Dewey number
- 364.6609756
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV8699.U6
- LC item number
- N846 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Justice, power, and politics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Capital punishment
- Capital punishment
- Lynching
- North Carolina
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Capital punishment
- Lynching
- Race relations
- North Carolina
- Label
- Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-294) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : a history of the present -- 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 -- Conclusion : a history of failure?
- Control code
- 1038021809
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781469649863
- Lccn
- 2018021265
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1038021809
- Label
- Lethal state : a history of the death penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-294) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : a history of the present -- 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 -- Conclusion : a history of failure?
- Control code
- 1038021809
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 307 pages
- Isbn
- 9781469649863
- Lccn
- 2018021265
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1038021809
Subject
- 1800-1999
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century
- Capital punishment
- Capital punishment
- Capital punishment -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
- Capital punishment -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century
- History
- History
- Lynching
- Lynching
- Lynching
- North Carolina
- North Carolina
- North Carolina -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Race relations
- Race relations
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