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The End of Public Execution - Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South (Hardcover)
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The End of Public Execution - Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South (Hardcover)
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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. Intended to shame and intimidate, public
executions after the Civil War had quite a different effect on
southern Black communities. Crowds typically consisting of as many
Black people as white behaved like congregations before a macabre
pulpit, led in prayer and song by a Black minister on the scaffold.
Black criminals often proclaimed their innocence and almost always
their salvation. This turned the proceedings into public,
mixed-race and mixed-gender celebrations of Black religious
authority and devotion. In response, southern states rewrote their
laws to eliminate these crowds and this Black authority, ultimately
turning to electrocutions in the bowels of state penitentiaries. In
just the same era when a wave of lynchings crested around the turn
of the twentieth century, states transformed the ways that the
South's white-dominated governments controlled legal capital
punishment, making executions into private affairs witnessed only
by white people.
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