Click HERE for classroom notes "Death Penalty History" (POWERPOINT) UPDATED Fall 2007

Here are two excellent web sites that discuss the history of the death penalty in the United States ...
 

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/history1.html

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/death/history.html#unitedstates
 

Here is a great web site that discusses the history of the death penalty in North Carolina ...

http://www.doc.state.nc.us/dop/deathpenalty/DPhistory.htm

Here are descriptions of some older executions (note the author claims a different "last public execution" than others:

The last public execution in the United States