Mass legal executions in America up to 1865
Through recorded history, governments have executed persons, sometimes in groups for the same offense. In the United States, most post trial mass executions, defined as executing four or more persons for the same incident, occurred prior to 1866. This unstudied aspect of capital punishment is intere...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Through recorded history, governments have executed persons, sometimes in groups for the same offense. In the United States, most post trial mass executions, defined as executing four or more persons for the same incident, occurred prior to 1866. This unstudied aspect of capital punishment is interesting for what it tells us about the social climate of the era (colonial days through the end of the American Civil War) in which those executions occurred and the leading fears of the society and/or its leaders. Following the American Civil War, mass executions not only declined in number and rate, but also matched more the trends in capital punishment overall. A detailed list of mass legal executions in America up to 1865 is appended to this article. |
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