Hanging of Ed Purvis
Albert B. Harrell
November 1897
Hanging of Peter Smith in Marshall, N.C.
C. L. Brittain
2 October 1905
Electric chair, Central Prison, Raleigh, N.C.
"Capital Punishment in North Carolina," Special Bulletin from the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, Raleigh, N.C. (1929)
1929
Diagram of the lethal gas chamber at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C.
Raleigh News & Observer
2 September 1935
Letter from Superintendent of North Carolina Prisons Ross Pou to H. L. Canfield, the president of the North Carolina Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.
12 February 1932
Allen Foster
1935
Copy of Hippocratic Oath (detail)
Circa 1979
Mugshots of Frank Dove, George Williams, and Fred Dove
"Capital Punishment in North Carolina," Special Bulletin from the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, Raleigh, N.C. (1929)
1925
Bulletin of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
January 1936
Graph from Guy Johnson's study 'The Negro and Crime'
1940
Excerpts from a letter from Alfred Kassab to U.S. District Court Judge Algernon Butler.
July 1974
Ruby McArthur to Paul Green
2 January 1962
Statements from "Death Penalty Information Packet" published by the Institute for Southern Studies
1979
Letter from Roger Jones of Greensboro, N.C., to State Senator McNeill Smith
1975
Draft of S.B. 972, a bill calling for a two-year moratorium on executions in North Carolina
2003
Jesse Helms campaign flyer
1990
Stay of execution for Velma Barfield
12 March 1982
Lloyd Ray Daniels to his mother
1953
Marion Wright to Reverend Billy Graham
1970
Reprint of "Frankie Silver's Confession"
The Lenoir Topic
1886
Nell Battle Lewis
ca. 1918
Allen Foster
ca. 935
Paul Green
ca. 1970
Sam Ervin, Jr.
n.d.
Ellie Kinnaird
1997