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- Collection: Capital Punishment - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
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Lynching announcement. John Hartfield will be lynched.
The article is a full page. The article demonstrates the level of mob justice and racial violence and how such culture impacted executions, legal and illegal, at the time.
George Stinney Jr., 1944. Dept. of Corrections,
Central Correctional Institution, Record of Prisoners
Awaiting Execution.
Mug shot of a young black man. George wears a baggy striped prisoner uniform with a placard labeled "260" hanging from his chest.
The Death Penalty: How Do Santa Cruzans Feel?
Newspaper article from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The article is split between 7 columns and lines the top of the page.