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Index Abernathy, Ralph, and Montgomery bus boycott, 55 abortion cases, Supreme Court continuance of, 121–22 Abrams, Sims v., 107 Adams, Oscar, 26, 49–50 Adams County Civic and Betterment Association (Louisiana), 37 African Americans: attitudes toward whites in South, 28–30; excluded from southern juries, 57, 77, 80, 89–90, 104–5, 121, 191n3; poverty of, 18, 58, 61; separate judicial standards applied to, 21–22; subculture of violence, 68–69, 176n16; voting rights for, 11, 15–16, 33–34, 54, 60, 98. See also integration; segregation; violence, racial African Americans, discriminatory death penalty sentencing of, 66, 116, 138, 188n63; in Alabama, 11, 13–14, 77; in Arkansas, 73, 79, 80, 91, 92–93, 117; due process clause applied to, 57, 94–95, 101, 106–7, 113, 114, 191n3; equal protection clause applied to, 4, 109, 125, 129, 132, 146, 155; in Florida, 9, 168n23; in Georgia, 75–76, 131, 143–46, 148–51, 177n62; in Louisiana, 12–13, 136, 143; lynching replaced by, 31–32, 33; in North Carolina, 143, 151; in rape cases, 21–22, 58, 116, 131, 133–35, 150, 154–55, 169n39; safeguards against, 143, 147, 152; statistics regarding, ix, xi–xii, 70–73, 91, 93–94, 120–21, 145–46, 148–51, 153, 191n13; in Texas, 10, 118, 121, 129. See also cruel and unusual punishment clause (Eighth Amendment), death penalty applied to; death penalty; juries, southern, racebased sentencing by; sentencing standards Aikens v. California, 112–13, 114, 118 Alabama, 18–19; Bessemer, 50, 51; Black Belt region, 25; civil rights lawyers in, 49–51, 53–55; Greene County, 25; Jefferson County Circuit Court, 25; KKK in, 34; liberal judges in, 55–57; Montgomery , 50, 169n7; Montgomery County Circuit Court, 24–25, 56– 57; obtaining stays of execution in, 67; Perry County Circuit Court, 24; politicians in, 60–61; racebased sentencing in, 11, 13–14, 77; segregation in, 49, 51, 60, 61; Selma, 15–16, 25–26, 33–34, 35–36; Sumter County Circuit Court, 25 196 Index Alabama, Butler v., 175n5, 178n77 Alabama, Rudolph v., 13–14, 169n37 Alabama-Georgia Survey team, 17–19, 21–30 Alabama Supreme Court, 23–24, 56, 78, 108 Alexander v. Louisiana, 104 allocution, right of, 80 Amaker, Norman, 77, 154, 163; and Maxwell case, 81, 83, 85, 88; preparation of Wolfgang for testifying, 66, 73–74; requesting stays of execution, 67; and Swain case, 78 American Law Institute, Model Code, 101, 135 Amsterdam, Anthony, 3–4, 66, 73, 108, 154, 155, 163; and Aikens v. California, 114; and Furman v. Georgia, 126; and Gregg v. Georgia, 135–36; and Maxwell v. Bishop, 70, 80, 81, 83–85, 88, 90–91, 92, 95–96, 104; and McGautha v. California, 105 Anderson, People v., 113, 118–19 Antler, Steve, 3 Arizona, Miranda v., 24, 94, 95, 117 Arizona, Ring v., 137 Arkansas: race-based death sentencing in, 73, 79, 80, 91, 92–93, 117; Survey results from, 70, 80, 85–86, 95, 118, 181n72 Arkansas State Prison System, 85 Arkansas Supreme Court, Maxwell ruling, 79, 85–87 Askew, Rubin, 134 Baime, David, 154 Baker v. Carr, 110, 185n10 Baldus, David C., studies by, 148–51, 153, 154 Bates, Ruby, 11 Beasley, Dorothy, 114–15 Bedau, Hugo, 118 Bell, Derrick, 192n42 bifurcated trials, 89, 137, 155; and Crampton v. Ohio, 105; and Maxwell v. Bishop, 80, 95, 96, 99, 101, 104, 105; and McGautha v. California, 105–7, 120 Billingsley, Wheeler, Jr., case of, 77, 78 Bishop, Maxwell v. See Maxwell v. Bishop Black, Hugo L., 53; death penalty views, 102, 109; and Maxwell v. Bishop, 95, 99, 101, 104; and McGautha v. California, 105–6, 107; resignation of, 113; and Witherspoon v. Illinois, 95 Blackmun, Harry: appointment to Supreme Court, 103; and Callins v. Collins, 132, 147; and Coker v. Georgia, 144; as Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals judge, 90–91; and Furman v. Georgia, 116, 117, 121, 132, 133; and Gregg v. Georgia, 135; and Hance v. Zant, 153; and Maxwell v. Bishop, 103, 104, 121; and McCleskey v. Kemp, 151, 153, 154; and McGautha v. California, 105–6 black power movement, 62. See also civil rights activism and activists Bloody Sunday. See SelmaMontgomery march (1965) Board of Education, Brown v., 10, 100 Bogalusa Deacons for Defense (Louisiana), 41 Bogalusa Voters League (BVL, Louisiana), 40–41 Booker, United States v., 141 Bowers, Sam Holloway, Jr., 37 Branch, Elmer, 112 Branch v. Texas, 112–13, 115, 125 Brayton, Thomas C. “Tim,” 15, 157; at KKK rally, 34–35; Survey...
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