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- Title
Black Man's Burden: Race and the Death Penalty in America.
- Authors
OGLETREE JR., CHARLES J.
- Abstract
The article discusses issues pertaining to the role of racism in the institution of death punishment in the U.S. Topics mentioned include the impact of capital punishment on African American defendants, African American communities, and African American victims, the relation between capital punishment and the previous use of extra-judicial lynchings against African Americans, and the initiatives of abolitionists to eliminate the impact of death penalty on African Americans.
- Subjects
RACISM; CAPITAL punishment; AFRICAN Americans; DEFENDANTS; EXTRAJUDICIAL executions; LYNCHING; ABOLITIONISTS
- Publication
Oregon Law Review, 2022, Vol 100, Issue 2, p437
- ISSN
0196-2043
- Publication type
Article