Lethal State
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Author_Seth Kotch
Capital Punishment in North Carolina
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clemency for capital crimes
commutations of death sentences
criminal justice and race
criminal justice in North Carolina
death penalty custom
Death Penalty in North Carolina
death penalty in the American South
death penalty law
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Execution in North Carolina
execution methods
execution rituals
gender and the death penalty
hanging
lynching and the death penalty
lynching in North Carolina
lynching in the American South
mercy in the criminal justice system
pain and suffering
politics of punishment
punishment for crime
punishment for crime in North Carolina
race and the death penalty
racial disparities in commutations
racial disparities in death sentences
suffering and the death penalty
technologies of execution
the electric chair
the gas chamber
the politics of the death penalty
the rise and fall of capital punishment
victims of crime
Product details
- ISBN 9781469649870
- Weight: 474g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 for 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.
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.
Seth Kotch is assistant professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
