Entries tagged with “Joia Erin Thornton”
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Race
,History of the Death Penalty
,Jan 14, 2022
Commentary: ‘Southern Pride,’ White Mob Mentality, and the Death Penalty
The same brand of Southern pride that inspired lynchings after the U.S. Civil War fuels support for the death penalty today, writes legal analyst Joia Erin Thornton (pictured) in a commentary on the web publication, Blavity. In The Dark Southern Pride Upholding The Barbaric Death Penalty, published December 23, 2021, Thornton argues that, just as Southern states in Reconstruction turned to extreme carceral punishments to reimpose violent control over Black…