The History of the South, Substituting lynching with the death penalty

In the 1930s, southerners started to get unconfrontable with lynchings and were getting bad press for not doing anything to stop lynchings. And that is when they did something dramatic. They substituted lynchings for the death penalty. The death penalty became a way to avoid lynchings. On this episode, I tell the story of how the south in the 1930s substituted lynchings for the death penalty.