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The Use of Death Penalty to Appease the Mob and Avoid Violence
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A study in 1933 by Arthur Raper concluded that the Southern politicians relied on the death penalty to appease the mob and avoid uncivilized violence. In three-quarters of the cases documented, black defendants alleged that they had been tortured into confessing by the police.

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