Legal Executions in North Carolina and South Carolina

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Legal Executions in North Carolina and South Carolina is written by Daniel Allen Hearn and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1476617155 (ISBN 10) and 9781476617152 (ISBN 13).

Presented in chronological order, this book provides essential details about the 1,152 men and women who were legally put to death in North and South Carolina during the century after the Civil War. Each entry contains information about the criminals themselves and the deeds which cost them their lives. Based almost entirely on original archival materials such as court records, contemporary newspapers, prisoner files, appellate reports, gubernatorial correspondence, etc., a newer picture of the historical record emerges that students of Southern justice will find both revealing and disconcerting.