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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.

Other author/creatorOgletree, Charles J., Jr., 1952-2023
Other author/creatorSarat, Austin.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : New York University, ©2006.
Descriptionix, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Series Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice. ^A707820
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, official lynching, 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005035414
ISBN0814740219 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814740227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814740217
ISBN9780814740224

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