Crime and Punishment
General
Hatfield-McCoy
Last Public Hanging
Matewan Massacre
Prison Riot, 1973
Individual Cases
Miscellaneous
General
"Thy Brother's Blood: Capital Punishment in West Virginia," by Stan Bumgardner and Christine Kreiser
(West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Executions in West Virginia
Letter from Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary, 23 January 1905
(West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
West Virginia Legislature Approves the Use of the Electric
Chair (Time Trail)
Electric Chair Legislation
"'Mere Military Color': The State Police and Martial Law," by Merle T. Cole (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Legislation Creating the Department of Public
Safety
Letter From Superintendent Jackson Arnold to
Sam
Taylor (First Trooper)
"New Superintendent of Police Body Here for the
Organization"
Hatfield-McCoy
Contemporary Articles on the Hatfield-McCoy Feud
Hatfield-McCoy Feud (Time Trail)
"Hatfield-McCoy Feud 75 Years Old Today"
"The Hatfield-McCoy Feud 100th Anniversary"
Sources on Devil Anse Hatfield and the Hatfield-McCoy Feud
Hatfield-McCoy Feud Photo Gallery
Hatfield Brothers Killed in Shootout (Time Trail)
"Recalls Slaying of Hatfield Boys" (Hatfield Brothers
Killed in
Shootout)
"A Triangular Shooting" (Hatfield Brothers Killed in
Shootout)
"Pneumonia Ends Career of Devil Anse Hatfield"
Last Public Hanging
West Virginia's Last Public Hanging (Time Trail)
"State's Last Public Hanging In Ripley 53
Years Ago"
Matewan Massacre
Sources on the Matewan Massacre
Matewan Massacre (Time Trail)
Sid Hatfield's Murder Trial (Time Trail)
Prison Riot, 1973
Riot at West Virginia Penitentiary (Time Trail)
"40 Convicts Hold 5 Guards Hostage"
"Hostages Free; Governor Here For Pen Riot
Settlement"
"State Police, National Guard Conduct Shakedown"
"Prison Settles Down To Routine Operation"
Individual Cases
Adkins Bankruptcy Case
Axis Sally
Bloch Kidnapping Plan
Lewis Collins Murder
Counterfeit Ring
William Seymour Douglas
Great Train Robbery at Central Station
Greenbrier Ghost
John Hardy
John Jennings Murder
Harry Powers
J. P. Thatcher Murder
Miscellaneous
Sources on the Cliftonville Riot
Hemphill Train Wreck
Labor Leader Mother Jones Arrested (Time Trail)
"The Death of Constable Riggs: Ethnic Conflict in
Marion County in the World War I Era," by Charles H. McDonald (West Virginia History)
Murder of McDowell County Deputy Sheriff William Johnson Tabor
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