“It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida
(2017)
Journal Article
Miller, V. (2017). “It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida. Crime, histoire & societes = Crime, history & societies / International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice, 21(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4000/chs.1714
Thirty men were executed for rape in Florida between 1940 and 1964, in a state undergoing rapid population growth, Sunbelt economic change, and black freedom struggle protest and activism. No white man was sentenced to death for the rape of a “Negro”... Read More about “It doesn’t take much evidence to convict a Negro”: Capital punishment, race, and rape in mid-20th-century Florida.