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Product Description: After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was âcruel and unusualâ for the offense charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individualâand the lastâever to be executed for a crime of this sort...read more
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9781574412703 | 2 edition (Univ of North Texas Pr, August 28, 2009), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was âcruel and unusualâ for the offense charged.
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9781574414745 | 2 reprint edition (Univ of North Texas Pr, June 13, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was âcruel and unusualâ for the offense charged.
Product Description: This innovative reappraisal of federal courts in Indian Territory shows how the United States Congress used judicial reform to suppress the Five Tribesâ governments and clear the way for Oklahoma statehood. Historians Jeffrey Burton traces the changing relationship between the federal government and the distinctive institutions of the Indian republics, from the post-Civil War Reconstruction treaties to the Enabling Act that carried Oklahoma to the threshold of statehood...read more
Hardcover:
9780806127545 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $34.95
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9780806129181 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This innovative reappraisal of federal courts in Indian Territory shows how the United States Congress used judicial reform to suppress the Five Tribesâ governments and clear the way for Oklahoma statehood.
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