Until He Is Dead: Capital Punishment in Western North Carolina History

by James Thomas Rusher

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Frances VanLandingham grew up in a Tennessee community called Poga that is near North Carolina border. She lived on a mountain road called Nowhere road. VanLandingham, who grew up in an environment in which girls' education was not encouraged, went on to complete college education and work as a teacher for a number of years. In her retirement, she returns to her roots on Nowhere Road.

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James Thomas Rusher is a native of Salisbury, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1967 and is licensed to practice law in North Carolina. He was elected District Attorney in the Twenty-fourth Prosecutorial District of North Carolina in 1982, and was re-elected to that position four times. After show more retiring from public office at the end of 2002, Rusher contracted as an-Assistant District Attorney in the counties of Burke, Catawba, and Caldwell, North Carolina show less

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Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
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364.6609756Society, government, & cultureSocial problems and social servicesCrimePunishmentDeath penalty
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HV8699 .U5 .R87Social sciencesSocial pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologySocial pathology. Social and public welfare.Criminal justice administrationPenology. Prisons. Corrections

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