Introduction: Re-Centering -- A Camp Meeting at the Gallows -- Beyond Executions of African American Men for Murder -- Shooting the Sheep-Killing Dogs: Racism in Southern Punishment -- Counting the South's Legal Executions -- Uncivil Executions -- Make it a Secret Silent Monster: Executions in Private
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
