Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South

Miller, Vivien

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the transition from hanging to electrical execution in Florida and the changing role of the sheriff as executioner in the 1920s.

Citation

Miller, V. (2019). Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South. In A. L. Wood, & N. J. Ring (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. University of Illinois Press

• Online Publication Date: Apr 22, 2019
• Publication Date: Apr 22, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 20, 2022
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Book Title: Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 9780252042409
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1603511
• Publisher URL: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p084195