Daniel Lachance
Biographic Data
| ID | 274691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Lachance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Lachance |
| SIGNATURE | LACHANCE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Death Penalty in Black and White
In the immediate aftermath of Reconstruction, coverage of executions in the Atlanta Constitution and the New Orleans (Times-)Picayune occasionally portrayed African Americans executed by the state as legally, politically, and spiritually similar to their white counterparts. But as radical white supremacy took hold across the South, the coverage changed. Through an analysis of 667 newspaper articles covering the executions of Black and white men i…
The Child in the Electric Chair
An unusual number of white women packed the gallery during the 1944 trial of George Stinney Jr., a fourteen-year-old Black boy charged with murdering two white girls in Clarendon County, South Carolina. The reason? Their purses concealed guns their husbands planned to use to kill Stinney if the boy was acquitted. But after the daylong trial, the jury took ten minutes to find Stinney guilty, and the judge sentenced him to death. With no funds for …
The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado
Scholars in recent years have increasingly turned to regions, states, and even counties to understand the uneven practice of capital punishment in the United States. Into this wave of local studies comes the distinguished sociologist Michael L. Radelet's The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado. Drawing on newspaper archives and legal databases, Radelet impressively pieces together a comprehensive account of the death penalty in Colorado, fro…
Executing Humanity
From the 1830s to the 1930s, elites across the United States increasingly privatized executions and standardized execution protocols. These changes reflected and reinforced a more bureaucratic image of the state as an abstract entity run by professionals operating in rule-bound roles rather than particular actors governing in an unsystematic way. After this period of change, the aesthetics of the execution ceremony had so thoroughly changed that …
Executing Freedom
Last Words, Last Meals, and Last Stands
Despite the historical transformation of executions in the United States into cloistered, bureaucratic affairs, two past practices have persisted in modern executions: the opportunities for the condemned to request a special last meal and to make a speech to those assembled to witness the execution. The retention of these practices and the communication of their contents by the state and the media to the public reinforce a conception of those exe…
Last Words, Last Meals, and Last Stands
Despite the historical transformation of executions in the United States into cloistered, bureaucratic affairs, two past practices have persisted in modern executions: the opportunities for the condemned to request a special last meal and to make a speech to those assembled to witness the execution. The retention of these practices and the communication of their contents by the state and the media to the public reinforce a conception of those exe…
Executing Humanity
From the 1830s to the 1930s, elites across the United States increasingly privatized executions and standardized execution protocols. These changes reflected and reinforced a more bureaucratic image of the state as an abstract entity run by professionals operating in rule-bound roles rather than particular actors governing in an unsystematic way. After this period of change, the aesthetics of the execution ceremony had so thoroughly changed that …
Last Words, Last Meals, and Last Stands
Despite the historical transformation of executions in the United States into cloistered, bureaucratic affairs, two past practices have persisted in modern executions: the opportunities for the condemned to request a special last meal and to make a speech to those assembled to witness the execution. The retention of these practices and the communication of their contents by the state and the media to the public reinforce a conception of those exe…
Executing Freedom
Executing Humanity
From the 1830s to the 1930s, elites across the United States increasingly privatized executions and standardized execution protocols. These changes reflected and reinforced a more bureaucratic image of the state as an abstract entity run by professionals operating in rule-bound roles rather than particular actors governing in an unsystematic way. After this period of change, the aesthetics of the execution ceremony had so thoroughly changed that …
The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado
Scholars in recent years have increasingly turned to regions, states, and even counties to understand the uneven practice of capital punishment in the United States. Into this wave of local studies comes the distinguished sociologist Michael L. Radelet's The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado. Drawing on newspaper archives and legal databases, Radelet impressively pieces together a comprehensive account of the death penalty in Colorado, fro…
The Death Penalty in Black and White
In the immediate aftermath of Reconstruction, coverage of executions in the Atlanta Constitution and the New Orleans (Times-)Picayune occasionally portrayed African Americans executed by the state as legally, politically, and spiritually similar to their white counterparts. But as radical white supremacy took hold across the South, the coverage changed. Through an analysis of 667 newspaper articles covering the executions of Black and white men i…
The Child in the Electric Chair
An unusual number of white women packed the gallery during the 1944 trial of George Stinney Jr., a fourteen-year-old Black boy charged with murdering two white girls in Clarendon County, South Carolina. The reason? Their purses concealed guns their husbands planned to use to kill Stinney if the boy was acquitted. But after the daylong trial, the jury took ten minutes to find Stinney guilty, and the judge sentenced him to death. With no funds for …
Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works) · Capital punishment (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)