| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Canada and the United States

Roger H. Tuller. "Let No Guilty Man Escape": A Judicial Biography of "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. (Legal History of North America, number 9.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 210. $27.95.

Roger H. Teller's book is what he calls a "judicial biography" of Isaac Charles Parker, the chief judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas from his presidential appointment in 1875 until his death in 1896. The court, sitting in Fort Smith, had jurisdiction over crimes committed by United States citizens in eighteen western counties of Arkansas and in unorganized Indian Territory in Oklahoma. 1

During Parker's tenure, his court docketed 12,031 criminal cases, resulting in 8,781 convictions. Roughly twenty-five percent of the cases involved serious crimes. Grand juries brought in 3,942 true bills for capital offenses. Following jury convictions, Parker sentenced 161 men to death, seventh-nine of whom hanged, as many as six at a time in highly publicized and well-attended public spectacles. With some reason, Parker gained a national media reputation as the "Hanging Judge." The only recourse to a Parker death sentence was executive clemency until 1889, when Congress gave the Supreme Court appeal responsibilities. . . .

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