Title
An evil day in Georgia [electronic resource] : the killing of Coleman Osborn and the death penalty in the progressive-era South / Robert N. Smith.
ISBN
9781621901471
9781621900948 (alkaline paper)
Published
Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Follows a homicide case committed in Georgia in 1927 from the crime to the executions of those convicted of the crime almost a year later. Along the way, the narrative highlights a number of issues impacting the death penalty process, many of which are still relevant in the modern era of capital punishment in the United States ... Moreover, the case in question illustrates a range of themes prevalent in post-Progressive Georgia and brings them together to create a broader narrative. Thus, issues of race, class, and gender emerge from what was supposed to be a neutral process; ... demonstrates that capital punishment cannot be administered in an untainted fashion, but its finality demands that it must be"--From Athenaeum@UGA website.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 US Regional Studies, South.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Added to Catalog
December 15, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The road to nowhere
Land where we'll never grow old
Chasing shadows
The accused
The end of the road
Redemption man
Payment to the law
"Pretty by ordinary standards"
The new woman
Retribution
Justice denied
Epilogue
Appendix I: Research methods
Appendix II: Literature.