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  • Collection: Facing Controversy

Stay of execution for Velma Barfield

Statements from "Death Penalty Information Packet" published by the Institute for Southern Studies

Sam Ervin, Jr.

Ruby McArthur to Paul Green

Reprint of "Frankie Silver's Confession"

Paul Green

Nell Battle Lewis

Mugshots of Frank Dove, George Williams, and Fred Dove

Marion Wright to Reverend Billy Graham

Lloyd Ray Daniels to his mother

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.

Letter from Roger Jones of Greensboro, N.C., to State Senator McNeill Smith

Jesse Helms campaign flyer

Hanging of Peter Smith in Marshall, N.C.

Hanging of Ed Purvis

Graph from Guy Johnson's study 'The Negro and Crime'

Excerpts from a letter from Alfred Kassab to U.S. District Court Judge Algernon Butler.

Ellie Kinnaird

Electric chair, Central Prison, Raleigh, N.C.

Draft of S.B. 972, a bill calling for a two-year moratorium on executions in North Carolina

Diagram of the lethal gas chamber at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C.

Copy of Hippocratic Oath (detail)

Ca. 1983: Pages from typed draft of "Preserving the Constitution: the Autobiography of Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr." (excerpt includes pages 167-170)
This text is from a chapter titled "Illustrative Judicial Aberrations." Ervin, the former judge and N.C. Supreme Court justice, argues that the decision in Furman v Georgia was flawed in that the majority did not rightly consider the intent of the…

Bulletin of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching

Allen Foster
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