From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America /
From lynch mobs to the killing state : race and the death penalty in America /
edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat.
- New York : New York University, c2006.
- p. cm.
- The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice .
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.
9780814740217 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814740219 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780814740224 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814740227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005035414
Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.
African American criminals--Civil rights.
Lynching--United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
KF9227.C2 / F76 2006
364.66089/96073
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.
9780814740217 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814740219 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780814740224 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814740227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2005035414
Discrimination in capital punishment--United States.
African American criminals--Civil rights.
Lynching--United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
KF9227.C2 / F76 2006
364.66089/96073