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

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

http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/history-death-penalty

http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/history.html
 

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