Hangman's Knot Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle With the Death Penalty

Eliza Steelwater, a native of New Orleans, has researched and written about capital punishment for fifteen years, since receiving a four-year Alumni Federation doctoral fellowship to study at Louisiana State University. One of her study sites was the nearby and infamous Angola penitentiary. She is the co-founder of Project HAL, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to collect and provide information about lynchings and legal executions, with the goal of one day eradicating them. She lives in Bloomington, IndianaSteelwater, Eliza is the author of 'Hangman's Knot Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle With the Death Penalty' with ISBN 9780813340425 and ISBN 081334042X.