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From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.

Contributor(s): Series: The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justicePublication details: New York : New York University, c2006.Description: p. cmISBN:
  • 9780814740217 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0814740219 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780814740224 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0814740227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.66089/96073 22
LOC classification:
  • KF9227.C2 F76 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Capital punishment as legal lynching / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- Making race matter in death matters / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. -- Traces of slavery : race and the death penalty in historical perspective / Stuart Banner -- The role of victim's race and geography on death sentencing : some recent data from Illinois / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce -- Death in "whiteface" : modern race minstrels, death penalty judgments, and the culture of American apartheid / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner -- Stereotypes, prejudice, and life and death decision-making : lessons from laypersons in an experimental setting / Mona Lynch -- Discrimination, death and denial : the tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty / Stephen B. Bright -- The rhetoric of race in the "new abolitionism" / Austin Sarat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Capital punishment as legal lynching / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- Making race matter in death matters / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. -- Traces of slavery : race and the death penalty in historical perspective / Stuart Banner -- The role of victim's race and geography on death sentencing : some recent data from Illinois / Michael L. Radelet and Glenn L. Pierce -- Death in "whiteface" : modern race minstrels, death penalty judgments, and the culture of American apartheid / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner -- Stereotypes, prejudice, and life and death decision-making : lessons from laypersons in an experimental setting / Mona Lynch -- Discrimination, death and denial : the tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty / Stephen B. Bright -- The rhetoric of race in the "new abolitionism" / Austin Sarat.

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