Title:
Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / David Garland.
Author:
Garland, David.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Call Number:
HV8699 .U5 G36 2010
ISBN:
9780674057234
Physical Description:
417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in America -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Discourse and death.
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