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Description edit
Taking us inside the world of capital punishment, this book presents a compelling picture of America's peculiar institution - its cultural meaning and symbolic force for supporters and abolitionists. Shattering current stereotypes, the book forces us to rethink our understanding of the... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- America
- United States
- Europe
- New York
- England
- France
- Texas
- Georgia
- Germany
- Michigan
- Britain
- California
- Paris
- Florida
- Court
- Pennsylvania
- Wisconsin
- Netherlands
- New Jersey
- Washington
- Spain
- Alabama
- Massachusetts
- Ohio
- Austria
- Nevada
- Kentucky
- Vermont
- Louisiana
- Italy
- Missouri
- Portugal
- Rhode Island
- Iowa
- West Virginia
- Northeast
- Gainesville
- Arkansas
- Minnesota
- Connecticut
- Mississippi
- Canada
- Prussia
- North Carolina
- Colorado
- Northern
- North Dakota
- Australia
First Sentence edit
As a Philadelphia journalist observed in 1812, "So much has been written and said on the subject of capital punishments that it seems almost like presumptive vanity to pursue the topic any further."
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: The Exemplary Execution
1. A Peculiar Institution
2. The American Way of Death
3. Historical Modes of Capital Punishment
4. The Death Penalty's Decline
5. Processes of Transformation
6. State and Society in America
7. Capital Punishment in America
8. An American Abolition
9. New Political and Cultural Meanings
10. Reinventing the Death Penalty
11. Death and Its Uses
Epilogue: Discourse and Death
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-674-05723-4
Page Count: 417
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-674-05723-4
Page Count: 417
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HV8699.U5.G36 2010
- Dewey: Add the Dewey Classification.
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Death
- Books › History › Americas › United States
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