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Transcribed from: Lethal punishment : lynchings and legal executions in the South / Margaret Vandiver. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006. xii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 9780813537283 9780813537290

Legal and extralegal executions in the American South

Lethal punishment in Tennessee and Florida

Eleven lynchings for every execution: lethal punishment in northwest Tennessee

"There can be nothing but death": lethal punishment for rape in Shelby County, Tennessee

"The first time a charge like this has ever been tried in the courts": the end of lynching in Marion County, Florida

The mob and the law: mock trials by mobs and sham legal trials

"The first duty of a government": lynching and the fear of anarchy

When the mob ruled: the lynching of Ell Persons

Prevented lynchings: white intervention and black resistance

"No reason why we should favor lynching or hanging": efforts to end legal and extralegal executions in Tennessee.

Lynching > Tennessee > History.

Executions and executioners > Tennessee > History.

Lynching > Florida > Ocala > History.

Executions and executioners > Florida > Ocala > History.