- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Death penalty supporters, one a Ku Klux Klan member, advocating capital punishment, outside the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, Jackson, Georgia, September 24, 1991.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Smith, Kimberly (Photographer)
- Date of Original:
- 1991-09-24
- Subject:
- Capital punishment
Georgia. Department of Corrections - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Butts County, 33.28785, -83.95717
United States, Georgia, Butts County, Jackson, 33.29457, -83.96602 - Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Newspaper assignment sheet attached to print verso identifies photographer Kimberly Smith: "Edward Stephens, left, of Jonesboro, GA and a KKK of Georgia member who would not give his name, stood with their signs in the pro-death penalty area outside the State of Georgia Corrections Dept. facility at Jackson, GA Tuesday evening before the scheduled execution of Warren McCleskey, who was convicted of shooting an Atlanta Police Officer. (The KKK guy did say he indeed was a Klan member and that he was from Georgia.)" One protestor holds sign that reads "Lethal injection is not fair ... Let's keep the electric chair!!!" The Klan member holds sign "We support the death penalty."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/2831
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:2831/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCP161-016c, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
Photographic Collections; - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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