The death penalty : an American history / Stuart Banner.
2002
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Author
Title
The death penalty : an American history / Stuart Banner.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
HV8699.U5 B367 2002
ISBN
0674007514 (alk. paper)
Description
ix, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47658928
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
1
1
Terror, Blood, and Repentance
5
2
Hanging Day
24
3
Degrees of Death
53
4
The Origins of Opposition
88
5
Northern Reform, Southern Retention
112
6
Into the Jail Yard
144
7
Technological Cures
169
8
Decline
208
9
To the Supreme Court
231
10
Resurrection
267
Epilogue
307
App
Counting Executions
313
Notes
315
Acknowledgments
371
Index
373