Race, Class, and the Death Penalty

Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
Author: Howard W. Allen
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0791478343

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Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.


Race, Class, and the Death Penalty
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Howard W. Allen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.
Race and the Death Penalty
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: David P. Keys
Categories: African American criminals
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

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In what has been called the Dred Scott decision of our times, the US Supreme Court found in McCleskey v. Kemp that evidence of overwhelming racial disparities i
At the Cross
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: Melynda J. Price
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this trut
Our Punitive Society
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Randall G. Shelden
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-10 - Publisher: Waveland Press

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This reader-friendly exploration of the primary forces relevant to punishment—poverty and political powerlessness—highlights the necessity for humane altern
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Charles J. Ogletree
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Situates the linkage between race and the death penalty in the history of the U.S. Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have b