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Author
Banner, Stuart, 1963-
Title
The death penalty : an American history / Stuart Banner.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Axe 3rd Floor Stacks
364.6609 B226d 2002
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Eureka Non-Fiction
364.66 Ban
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Description
385 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Terror, blood, and repentance -- Hanging day -- Degrees of death -- The origins of opposition -- Northern reform, southern retention -- Into the jail yard -- Technological cures -- Decline -- To the Supreme Court -- Resurrection.
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Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions.
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0674007514
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