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Death Penalty An American History

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ISBN-10: 0674010833

ISBN-13: 9780674010833

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Stuart Banner

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Description:

The death penalty arouses more passion than almost any other issue. This account of the death penalty in the United States tells the story of dramatic changes, over four centuries, in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced.
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Stuart Banner is Norman Abrams Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Abbreviations
Introduction
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
Epilogue
Appendix: Counting Executions
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index