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The Death Penalty : An American History /
The death penalty arouses our passions as does few other issues. Some view taking another person's life as just and reasonable punishment while others see it as an inhumane and barbaric act. But the intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes often obscures its long and varied history...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Terror, Blood, and Repentance
- 2. Hanging Day
- 3. Degrees of Death
- 4. The Origins of Opposition
- 5. Northern Reform, Southern Retention
- 6. Into the Jail Yard
- 7. Technological Cures
- 8. Decline
- 9. To the Supreme Court
- 10. Resurrection
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Counting Executions
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index