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aExpertly dissects the racist underpinnings of capital
punishment while pushing some intellectual boundaries.a
--"International Socialist Review"
aThe authors give the nation an unflinching view of the shameful
influence of racism in death penalty cases. This is a must read for
anyone who cares about fairness in application of the death penalty
and respect for the rule of law in our modern society.a
--Senator Edward M. Kennedy
aOgeltree and Sarat combine the most severe criminal punishment
with the bugaboo of racial class and prejudice in their book From
Lynch Mobs to the Killing State. The professors astutely note that
the death penalty is often used as a club to keep poor and
desperate minorities in line in the larger white society.a
--"Black Issues Book Review"
aAn elegant compendium of essays written by sociologists,
historians, criminologists, and lawyers. The essays starkly reveal
how this countryas death penalty has its roots in lynchings, and
how it operates to sustain a racist agenda.a
--"The Federal Lawyer"
"This book offers thoughtful and wide-ranging assessments of how
America's most dramatic punishment intersects with America's
deepest and most divisive social problem. These essays go far
beyond the obvious and offer much of interest both for those with a
particular interest in the death penalty and for those who seek to
understand and to ameliorate our country's shameful legacy of
racial inequality. This is the rare book that will be helpful to
the student, the scholar, and the activist alike."
--Carol Steiker, Harvard Law School
"Essential reading for all who are seeking to understand
thecontemporary American death penalty or to imagine an America
without one."
--Jonathan Simon, School of Law-Boalt Hall, University of
California, Berkeley
"A major contribution."
--Randy A. Hertz, NYU School of Law
"Riveting and very timely. Remarkably, the book creatively
assembles social history, demographic and statistical analysis,
experimental psychology, and legal history and finds a common
truth: the death penalty may be one of the most persistent,
self-reinforcing ways we uphold racial division."
--Robert Weisberg, Stanford University Law School
"The book is bound to influence the thinking of many who
tolerate if not actively support the death penalty because of the
way it shows how deeply entrenched are the shameful racist
attitudes and practices in our nation's dominant (white)
culture."
--Hugo Adam Bedau, editor of "The Death Penalty in America"
"This is the first recent volume to address race and capital
punishment in such a broad, systematic, and--perhaps most
importantly--multi-disciplinary fashion."
--David R. Dow, University of Houston Law Center
Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American
jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows
little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the
violent criminalization of African American populations that has
marked the country's history of punishment.
In a bold attempt to tackle the looming question of how and why
the connection between race and the death penalty has been so
strong throughout American history, Ogletree and Sarat headline an
interdisciplinary cast of experts in reflecting on this disturbing
issue. Insightful original essaysapproach the topic from legal,
historical, cultural, and social science perspectives to show the
ways that the death penalty is racialized, the places in the death
penalty process where race makes a difference, and the ways that
meanings of race in the United States are constructed in and
through our practices of capital punishment.
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State not only uncovers the ways
that race influences capital punishment, but also attempts to
situate the linkage between race and the death penalty in the
history of this country, in particular the history of lynching. In
its probing examination of how and why the connection between race
and the death penalty has been so strong throughout American
history, this book forces us to consider how the death penalty
gives meaning to race as well as why the racialization of the death
penalty is uniquely American.
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