The death penalty : an American history /

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A comprehensive account of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner tells the story of dramatic changes, over four centuries, in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, death was the standard penalty for a laundry l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Banner, Stuart, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Temas:
Capital punishment > United States > History.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Capital punishment.
Capital Punishment
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Histoire.
Peine de mort > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Peine de mort.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Crime.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects
Social conditions
Todesstrafe
Geschichte
Doodstraf.
Aspect moral.
Histoire.
Peine capitale.
United States > Social conditions.
United States
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
USA
États-Unis.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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