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Author Beasley, David, 1958-

Title Without mercy : the stunning true story of race, crime, and corruption in the Deep South / David Beasley.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.134 BEASLEY    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.66 BEASLEY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.66 B38    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  364.6609 BEASLEY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.66 BE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-261) and index.
Summary "Without Mercy reads like a John Grisham thriller."---David R. Dow, author of The Autobiography of an Execution. On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in eighty-one minutes in Tattnall Prison's electric chair. The executions were a record for the state that still stands today. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to be a sign of progress. They were anything but. While those men were arrested, convicted, sentenced, and executed in as little as six weeks---E.D. Rivers, the governor of the state, oversaw a pardon racket for white killers and criminals, allowed the Ku Klux Klan to infiltrate his administration, and bankrupted the state. Race and wealth were all that determined whether or not a man lived or died. There was no progress. There was no justice. David Beasley's Without Mercy is the harrowing true story of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the violent death throes of the Klan, but most of all it is the story of the stunning injustice of these executions and how they have seared distrust of the legal system into the consciousness of the Deep South, and it is a story that will forever be a testament to the death penalty's appalling inequality that continues to plague our nation.
Contents Introduction: waiting to die -- Thrill killers -- The great titan -- Laid to rest -- A baby with no name -- A deadly bug -- A friend from the Klan -- "Lord, I am dying" -- A strange and violent fall -- Eighty-one minutes -- Millionaires in prison -- A bankrupt state -- The price of freedom -- The long way up.
Local Note BRPLADFIC
Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Crime -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century.
Georgia -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
ISBN 9781250014665 hardback
1250014662 hardback
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