2005 was the year Stanley Williams was executed.
Merrill Daniel Peterson -LRB- 31 March 1921 -- 23 September 2009 -RRB- was a history professor at the University of Virginia and the editor of the prestigious Library of America edition of the selected writings of Thomas Jefferson .. University of Virginia. University of Virginia. Library of America. Library of America. Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson. Peterson wrote several books on Jefferson , including The Jefferson Image in the American Mind -LRB- Oxford University Press , 1960 ; reprinted with new foreword , University Press of Virginia , 1998 -RRB- , and Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation -LRB- Oxford University Press , 1970 -RRB- .. Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson. Other works include Lincoln in American Memory -LRB- Oxford University Press , 1994 -RRB- , John Brown  : The Legend Revisited -LRB- 2002 -RRB- , and most recently Starving Armenians  : America and the Armenian Genocide , 1915-1930 and After -LRB- Univ. of Virginia Press -RRB- .