Lethal punishment: lynchings and legal executions in the South

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Electronic chairman came to Tennessee, where the state execution coexisted with citizens themselves through racist mobs. Margaret Vandiver writes an article in the county on Dale County, Tennessee in his book "Deadly Punishment: Lynch in the South and Enforcement of the Law". There was a tradition of Lynch before 1915. This is a county where a black male Julius Morgan was accused of raping a white woman. Van Diver wrote that he finally fled Lynch and the county sheriff took extraordinary measures to take him from the mob - Jackson, Union City, and finally Nashville. She wrote that Morgan's lawyer could definitely change his place to Memphis. But he was convicted and sentenced to death. After his appeal has been dismissed, Morgan will be the first person to be executed on the electric chair in Tennessee on July 13, 1916.

Chairperson: After 100 years of initial use, Tennessee's electric chair is still the most deadly killer in the state.

Lynch is an unofficial death penalty, conviction and enforcement of groups lacking formal powers. Victims are usually black people, executors are usually white. The boundary between Lynch and official execution may be weak. Participants in Lynch usually include people who manage the criminal justice system in an official position. Official trials and executions in the south can be carried out very quickly, very quickly.

The death penalty is the legal judgment of 32 states and the federal citizen and military law system. Since the death penalty was restored in 1976, the actual execution of the death penalty in the United States is rare, and 34 states have executed the death penalty. The implementation method varies, but the most common method since 1976 is the application of the death penalty. In 2014, a total of 35 people were executed and 3,002 people were sentenced to death. If homicide is done within the boundary of the state, the state has jurisdiction, and if a crime occurs in the District of Columbia as well, the DC Supreme Court (equivalent to state provincial court) holds jurisdiction. Federal courts may have exclusive jurisdiction in certain lawsuits, including property or personnel of the US Government.