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The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990
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1995
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Criminal CodeLawCriminal LawSocial SciencesCriminal Justice ProcessCriminal Justice SystemAfrican American StudiesLethal InjectionCapital MurderCapital PunishmentPenologyPublic PolicyHomicideDecarcerationPunishmentDeath InvestigationCriminal JusticeLegal HistoryCarceral SettingJusticeCorrections Procedures
* Preface * Chapter 1. From Lynchings to Electrocutions * Chapter 2. The Initial Harvest of Death: 1924-1972 * Chapter 3. Rape, Race, and a Peculiar Chivalry * Chapter 4. Capital Murder and Midnight Appeals * Chapter 5. Spared the Chair and Sentenced to Life * Chapter 6. Adoption of Lethal Injection and Contemporary Death Rituals * Chapter 7. Stages of Sentencing and Future Dangerousness of Convicts * Chapter 8. Some Closing Thoughts * Appendix A. Statute Providing for the Electrocution of Convicts Condemned to Death * Appendix B. Death Row Prisoners, 1923-1988 * Appendix C. Post-1974 Department of Corrections Procedures for the Execution of Death-sentenced Inmates * Notes * References * Court Cases * Index