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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Printing. 303 Pages Indexed. Very light crease to front cover. No other defects noted to this otherwise As New used book. Interior text pages are faultless. The use of the death penalty in modern-day America is increasingly a southern phenomenon. Since its reinstitution in 1976, 81 percent of the nation's executions have taken place in the South, and nearly half of those have been carried out in Texas and Virginia.' But Tennessee is seemingly an aberration among the formerly Confederate states; it has executed just six men -- Robert Glen Coe, Sedley Alley, Philip Workman, Daryl Holton, Steve Henley, and Cecil Johnson -- in fifty years, and all of these in the past ten. Surprisingly, there is very little mention and no systematic examination of capital punishment in Tennessee in the voluminous literature on the death penalty in America, so we are left with little explanation for this deviation.' Analysts examining the southern propensity for executions have pointed to the region's history of slavery and racism, its violent systems of social control, its culture of honor and violence, and its evangelical- fundamentalist Christian traditions-indeed, the Southern Baptist Convention is the only mainline Christian denomination to issue a statement affirming the death penalty on biblical and Christian grounds. Tennessee has all of these elements in its culture. It has almost one hundred people condemned to death in its prisons, but paradoxically, it has had just six executions since 1976. Some commentators have posited that Tennesseans want the death penalty in principle but do not actually want to execute the people condemned to death. Contents in Three Parts: The History of the Abolition Movementin Tennessee, Confronting Capital Punishment in the Volunteer State, and Rarely Heard Voices.

Paperback. Condizione: Used: Good. 1st pbk. ed. Softcover, 214pp, ex-department library copy, good.in Sexist Society.