"Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History" by Howard W. Allen and Jerome M. Clubb
with assistance from Vincent A. Lacey
State University of New York Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0791474372 9780791474372 9781435648623 | 256 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history. This book is concerned with the long-term trends in the use of capital punishment in the United States, and in areas that would become part of the United States, from the colonial period onward.