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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. New York: Penguin Press, 2019. ISBN 0-5255-5953-1; Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8078-2287-6; Griffin, John Howard.
Racial and ethnic disparities in the employment of the death sentence have been significant in scope over the long arc of American history. The main cause is due to the pervasive societal prejudice in southern counties. More than twice as many people were put to death in the South between 1866 and 1945 as there were in the Northeast. [25]
The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2] Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions , the information may become outdated.
James Powel, USA TODAY Updated December 15, 2024 at 3:57 PM The family of a Tennessee man on death row called on Republican Gov. Bill Lee to reexamine the case for a potential pardon at a press ...
Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida went on on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" with Joy Reid to defend comments he made that Jim Crow, a period of racial violence and segregation, was an era when “the Black ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over ...
On April 6, 1997, 25-year-old Gregory "Greg" Philip Malnory (July 18, 1971 – April 6, 1997) and his 26-year-old wife Kimberly "Kim" Ann Malnory (née Parkinson; November 9, 1970 – April 6, 1997) were murdered by James Dennis Ford (July 23, 1960 – February 13, 2025) at South Florida Sod Farm in Charlotte County, Florida, after Ford lured the couple to the farm under the pretense of a ...
The only woman on death row in Oklahoma could get a new chance to challenge her murder conviction, following a Supreme Court ruling in her favor on claims she was sex-shamed during her trial ...