The Transition of Methods of Execution in North Carolina: A Descriptive Social History of Two Time Periods, 1935 and 1983

The death penalty has been an area of focus in several academic disciplines, yet modest literature has been generated which examines the sanction from a sociological perspective. Most of the sociological interest in capital punishment is directed at examining and explaining racial disparities in sen...

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Main Author: Seitz, Katrina Nannette
Other Authors: Sociology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27466
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05012001-122101/