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Jackson, Jesse,, 1941- Legal lynching : racism, injustice, and the death penalty / Jesse Jackson with Jesse Jackson, Jr. - 1st Marlowe & Co. ed.. - New York : Marlowe & Co., 1996.
224 p. ; 24 cm. Content notes : The roots of capital punishment -- Alternatives to the death penalty -- Innocence and the death penalty: the danger of mistaken executions -- Cruel and unusual punishment: is the death penalty unconstitutional? -- Deadly numbers: race, geography, sex, and the death penalty -- Deterrence, brutalization, and snowstorms -- Poor man's penalty: lack of representation -- Thou shalt not kill: biblical, theological, and moral dimensions of the death penalty -- Faith, popular opinion, and the future of capital punishment -- Appendix: National organizations against the death penalty. 1569247617 9781569247617 * Capital punishment - United States. Discrimination in capital punishment - United States. Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States. African Americans. Todesstrafe Rassendiskriminierung * United States - Race relations. USA * Jackson, Jesse, * Title