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Robert Turrell presents a novel approach to the study of capital
punishment in 20th-century South Africa. White Mercy focuses on
official acts of mercy rather than on miscarriages of justice.
Turrell bases his absorbing narrative on a thorough investigation
of government statistics, court testimony, and judges' reports. He
shows that racism and sexism profoundly influenced death-penalty
cases, but not in equal ways. Africans, whom white rulers
considered the "weaker" race, and women, whom men called the
"weaker" sex, entered a legal realm that both promoted preordained
cultural difference and disproportionately granted clemency to
females convicted of murder. What will perhaps surprise many
readers is that a number of condemned white men went to the gallows
because the court believed they exhibited the incorrigible
instincts of the "weaker" race. White Mercy stands alone in South
African scholarship as the only book-length history of capital
punishment. It is also a pioneering study in White Mercy stands
alone in South African scholarship as the only book-length history
of capital punishment. It is also a pioneering study in the field
of gender studies. Turrell's sharp analysis and engrossing
vignettes will be welcomed by students in graduate seminars and
upper-level undergraduate courses covering a range of themes from
race relations and gender studies, to the death penalty and
constitutional developments in the United States and South Africa.
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