The End Of Public Execution
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The End Of Public Execution
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Author : Michael Ayers Trotti
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2022-11-29
The End Of Public Execution written by Michael Ayers Trotti and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with History categories.
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion. Intended to shame and intimidate, public executions after the Civil War had quite a different effect on southern Black communities. Crowds typically consisting of as many Black people as white behaved like congregations before a macabre pulpit, led in prayer and song by a Black minister on the scaffold. Black criminals often proclaimed their innocence and almost always their salvation. This turned the proceedings into public, mixed-race, and mixed-gender celebrations of Black religious authority and devotion. In response, southern states rewrote their laws to eliminate these crowds and this Black authority, ultimately turning to electrocutions in the bowels of state penitentiaries. As a wave of lynchings crested around the turn of the twentieth century, states transformed the ways that the South’s white-dominated governments controlled legal capital punishment, making executions into private affairs witnessed only by white people.
Executing Magic In The Modern Era
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Author : Owen Davies
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-19
Executing Magic In The Modern Era written by Owen Davies and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with History categories.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.
Capital Punishment In Japan
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Author : Petra Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2002
Capital Punishment In Japan written by Petra Schmidt and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Law categories.
This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the system, challenges traditional views and arguments and seeks the real reasons behind the retention of capital punishment in Japan.
The Last Public Execution In America
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Author : Perry Thomas Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Perry t Ryan
Release Date : 1992
The Last Public Execution In America written by Perry Thomas Ryan and has been published by Perry t Ryan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Social Science categories.
On August 14, 1936, Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, before a crowd of 20,000. The public outrage which followed resulted in the complete abolition of public executions in the United States. This site provides the complete text of the book, The Last Public Execution in America.
Harnessing The Power Of The Criminal Corpse
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Author : Sarah Tarlow
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-17
Harnessing The Power Of The Criminal Corpse written by Sarah Tarlow and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-17 with History categories.
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Public Executions
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Author : Christopher S. Kudlac
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2007-08-30
Public Executions written by Christopher S. Kudlac and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-30 with Law categories.
The death penalty is one of the country's most controversial issues. The fairness of its application is debated in coffeehouses, classrooms, political arenas, and the media. However, despite its representation in the media, most death cases receive surprisingly little national media attention. In fact, of the 1000 people executed in the United States since 1977, and the 3,500 inmates currently awaiting execution, only a handful of cases can be recalled by the public. Those that are memorable are so because only a few are dramatically represented in the media. Why is it that those that receive the most serious penalty are virtually nameless, while the death penalty in general is one of the most discussed aspects of the criminal justice system? What makes some executions more newsworthy than others? What are the implications of this coverage for the public's understanding of this significant issue? This book looks at those death row cases that received the most intensive media coverage from the 1970s through the present, and why. At the same time, it focuses on changes in public opinion about the death penalty and how newspaper coverage and evolving mass sentiment relate to one another. Kudlac covers such celebrated cases as Karla Faye Tucker, Timothy McVeigh, Aileen Wuornos, John Wayne Gacy, and others that captured the attention of the American public and affected public opinion about the death penalty through the help of the media. He considers issues such as religion, politics, race, gender, and class as he reveals the reasons for our attention to certain cases above others. The book concludes with a consideration of where we go from here. With new investigative techniques that have helped to exonerate some death row inmates, and various other considerations that have come into play in recent cases, the future of the death penalty will continue to be shaped by the media and the public.
A Hanging In Detroit
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Author : David Gardner Chardavoyne
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-16
A Hanging In Detroit written by David Gardner Chardavoyne and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-16 with History categories.
The first historical study—and a riveting account—of the last execution in Michigan. On September 24, 1830, Stephen G. Simmons, a fifty-year-old tavern keeper and farmer, was hanged in Detroit for murdering his wife, Levana Simmons, in a drunken, jealous rage. Michigan executed only two people during the fifty-year period, from 1796 to 1846, when the death penalty was legal within its boundaries. Simmons was the second and last person to be executed under Michigan law. In A Hanging in DetroitDavid G. Chardavoyne vividly evokes not only the crime, trial, and execution of Simmons, but also the setting and players of the drama, social and legal customs of the times, and the controversy that arose because of the affair. Chardavoyne illuminates his account of this important moment in Michigan's history with many little-known facts, creating a study that is at once an engrossing story and the first historical examination of the event that helped bring about the abolition of the death penalty in Michigan. Simmons execution came at a time when Michigan had begun to change from a sparsely populated wilderness to a thriving agricultural center, and Detroit from a small military outpost to a metropolis founded on trade, manufacturing, and an influx of immigrants and other settlers. The hanging was a defining moment during this period of dramatic social change. Thousands of spectators crowded into Detroit expecting to see a thrilling public execution. Many of those spectators, however, left deeply disturbed by the spectacle they had witnessed. Chardavoyne, a lawyer, probes the unsettling incident which sparked a profound shift in attitudes toward capital punishment in Michigan, examining along the way such mysteries as why Simmons was hanged for his crime when other contemporary killers were hardly punished at all. A Hanging in Detroit will fascinate legal historians and lay readers alike with its incisive look into Great Lakes regional history and crime and punishment in Michigan.
Discipline And Punish
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Author : Michel Foucault
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-04-18
Discipline And Punish written by Michel Foucault and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-18 with Social Science categories.
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Hiding The Guillotine
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Author : Emmanuel Taïeb
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-15
Hiding The Guillotine written by Emmanuel Taïeb and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with History categories.
Hiding the Guillotine examines the question of state involvement in violence by tracing the evolution of public executions in France. Why did the state move executions from the bloody and public stage of the guillotine to behind prison doors? In a fascinating exploration of a grim subject, Emmanuel Taïeb exposes the rituals and theatrical form of the death penalty and tells us who watched, who participated in, and who criticized (and ultimately brought an end to) a spectacle that the state called "punishment." France's abolition of the death penalty in 1981 has long overshadowed its suppression of public executions over forty years earlier. Since the Revolution, executions attracted tens of thousands of curious onlookers. But, gradually, there was a shift in attitude and the public no longer saw this as a civilized pastime. Why? Combining material from legal archives, police files, an executioner's notebooks, newspaper clippings, and documents relating to 566 executions, Hiding the Guillotine answers this question. Taïeb demonstrates the ways in which the media was at the vanguard of putting an end to the publicity surrounding the death penalty. The press had ample reason to be critical: cities were increasingly being used for leisure activity and prisons for those accused of criminal activity. The agitation surrounding each execution, coupled with a growing identification with the condemned, would blur these boundaries. Ranked among the top hundred history books by the website, Café du Web Historizo, Hiding the Guillotine has much to impart to students of legal history, human rights, and criminology, as well as to American historians.
Corrections
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Author : William J. Chambliss
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2011-05-03
Corrections written by William J. Chambliss and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-03 with Law categories.
Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.