Abstract
Using multivariate techniques, this article reanalyzes data from the Espy file to test a hypothesis by historian George Wright. In Racial Violence in Kentucky, Wright concludes that legal executions became a functional substitute for Black lynchings in Kentucky. Wright assumes that executions formed a legal substitute for lynchings of Blacks. For this reason, Black lynchings declined dramatically during the 1920s and 1930s. We conducted a statistical analysis of data on executions and lynchings for in Kentucky from 1866 to 1934 to test Wright's thesis. Overall, the results demonstrate that execution increased the rate of lynchings both Blacks and Whites.
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