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Without mercy : the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South, David Beasley
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- Summary
- On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in eighty-one minutes in Tattnall Prison's electric chair. The executions were a record for the state that still stands today. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to be a sign of progress. They were anything but. While those men were arrested, convicted, sentenced, and executed in as little as six weeks---E. D. Rivers, the governor of the state, oversaw a pardon racket for white killers and criminals, allowed the Ku Klux Klan to infiltrate his administration, and bankrupted the state. Race and wealth were all that determined whether or not a man lived or died. There was no progress. There was no justice. David Beasley's Without Mercy is the harrowing true story of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the violent death throes of the Klan, but most of all it is the story of the stunning injustice of these executions and how they have seared distrust of the legal system into the consciousness of the Deep South, and it is a story that will forever be a testament to the death penalty's appalling inequality that continues to plague our nation
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9781250014665
- Label
- Without mercy : the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South
- Title
- Without mercy
- Title remainder
- the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South
- Statement of responsibility
- David Beasley
- Subject
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- trueAfrican Americans
- trueAfrican Americans -- Georgia
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Crime -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century
- trueCriminal justice system
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century
- trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
- trueDepressions, 1929-1941
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century
- trueGeorgia -- Race relations | History
- trueGeorgia -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueInjustice
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- truePolitical corruption
- trueRacism in capital punishment
- trueRacism in the criminal justice system
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in eighty-one minutes in Tattnall Prison's electric chair. The executions were a record for the state that still stands today. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to be a sign of progress. They were anything but. While those men were arrested, convicted, sentenced, and executed in as little as six weeks---E. D. Rivers, the governor of the state, oversaw a pardon racket for white killers and criminals, allowed the Ku Klux Klan to infiltrate his administration, and bankrupted the state. Race and wealth were all that determined whether or not a man lived or died. There was no progress. There was no justice. David Beasley's Without Mercy is the harrowing true story of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the violent death throes of the Klan, but most of all it is the story of the stunning injustice of these executions and how they have seared distrust of the legal system into the consciousness of the Deep South, and it is a story that will forever be a testament to the death penalty's appalling inequality that continues to plague our nation
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10275498
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Beasley, David
- Dewey number
- 364.66089/960730758
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV9955.G4
- LC item number
- B43 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- African Americans
- Crime
- Georgia
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South
- Label
- Without mercy : the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South, David Beasley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9781250014665
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013038659
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- 846545708
- (OCoLC)846545708
- Label
- Without mercy : the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South, David Beasley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages
- Isbn
- 9781250014665
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013038659
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- 846545708
- (OCoLC)846545708
Subject
- trueAfrican Americans
- trueAfrican Americans -- Georgia
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Crime -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century
- trueCriminal justice system
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century
- trueDepressions -- 1929-1941
- trueDepressions, 1929-1941
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century
- trueGeorgia -- Race relations | History
- trueGeorgia -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- trueInjustice
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- truePolitical corruption
- trueRacism in capital punishment
- trueRacism in the criminal justice system
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