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Learn more about the death penalty at the county level here. Wrongful Convictions and Executions. Since , individuals who spent time on death row have been exonerated. This includes 16 people convicted and sentenced to death in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Cost of the Death Penalty. National and International Abolition. A total of 23 states and the District of Columbia do not allow the death penalty.
Governors in three other states Oregon, Pennsylvania, and California have imposed a moratorium on executions, bringing the total number of states that have either ended the death penalty or have a moratorium to Close Menu Home. Who We Are. Board of Directors. What We Do. Annual Conference. Inmates on death row receive a regular diet, and have access to reading, writing, and legal materials.
Depending upon their custody level, some death row inmates may have a radio. The women on death row are housed at the Mountain View Unit. The State of Texas authorized the use of the electric chair in , and ordered all executions to be carried out by the state in Huntsville. Prior to , Texas counties were responsible for their own executions. The State of Texas executed the first inmate by electrocution on February 8, Charles Reynolds Red River County was executed. However, James W. Sorensen offer a more complex thesis.
In other words, the South has a cultural tradition of dehumanizing certain groups of people, which has made it easier for Southerners to separate themselves from those who do not adhere to the normal social and in this case, legal code. Lynching, in their interpretation, did not represent justice but rather the clearest way to exclude someone or, implicitly, a whole group from society. A member of a society who breaks the law experiences the force of justice; the representative individual who is forcibly rejected by, or excluded from, society is lynched.
Based on this understanding of lynching, their findings are compelling: there is a direct, inverse relationship between executions and lynchings over the course of the twentieth century. How could the coldly bureaucratic and legalistic execution serve the same socio-cultural purpose as the heated, violent and carnival-like lynching?
The end of the Civil War undermined the disenfranchisement of blacks that had characterized the ante-bellum South. Lynchings had been a tool white Southerners used to combat their insecurity about the status of blacks.
Of course, Texas now executes a far wider racial and ethnic mix of individuals than African-Americans. How, then, could it be that Texans and Southerners in general continue to approach society in such a provincial and exclusivist way? Indeed, the authors recognize that we can no longer simply regard the Southern predisposition toward the death penalty as a continuation of the ideals of the Confederacy.
And, needless to say, that cultural struggle will continue for the foreseeable future.
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