Since the U.S. Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, Florida's highest annual execution tally on record was eight people in 2014.
January 01, 2014
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historical
Historical comparison of annual execution totals in Florida following the 1976 restoration of the death penalty.
In the antebellum American South, laws and social systems often criminalized or prohibited literacy for enslaved people, making written signatures or inscriptions by enslaved artisans an exceptional assertion of identity and authorship.
January 01, 1830
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temporal
Explains the legal and social constraints on literacy for enslaved people and the significance of inscriptions.