{"product_id":"the-rope-the-chair-and-james-w-marquart-9780292752139","title":"The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the gallows. Of 520 convicted capital offenders sentenced to die between 1923 and 1972, 361 were actually executed, thus maintaining Texas' traditional reputation as a staunch supporter of capital punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the single most comprehensive examination to date of capital punishment in any one state, drawing on data for legal executions from 1819 to 1990. The authors show persuasively how slavery and the racially biased practice of lynching in Texas led to the institutionalization and public approval of executions skewed according to race, class, and gender, and they also track long-term changes in public opinion up to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories of the condemned are masterfully interwoven with fact and interpretation to provide compelling reading for scholars of law, criminal justice, race relations, history, and sociology, as well as partisans on both sides of the debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Jonathan R. Sorensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 029275213X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292752139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.96w x 0.78d","brand":"James W. Marquart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761396248831,"sku":"9780292752139","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58e4421e-c9c7-4c22-a433-cf7e212dc898.jpg?v=1706681213","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rope-the-chair-and-james-w-marquart-9780292752139","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}