Facing Controversy: Struggling with Capital Punishment in North Carolina

November 1897:Hanging of Ed Purvis

This drawing depicts the hanging of Ed Purvis in Lillington, N.C. (Original drawing by Albert B. Harrell; Courtesy of State Archives, North Carolina Office of Archives and History)

1897: Hanging of Ed Purvis

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