RT Book T1 Lethal state: a history of the death penalty in North Carolina T2 Justice, power, and politics T2 H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series A1 Kotch, Seth LA English PP Chapel Hill PB University of North Carolina Press YR 2019 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1645428184 AB 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 NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN HV8699.U6 SN 9781469649863 SN 9781469649870 K1 Capital Punishment : History : 20th century : North Carolina K1 Capital Punishment : History : 19th century : North Carolina K1 Lynching K1 African Americans : Civil rights : History : 20th century K1 North Carolina : Race relations : History : 20th century K1 North Carolina : Todesstrafe : Geschichte