Invitation to an execution : a history of the death penalty in the United States /

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"Until the early twentieth century, printed invitations to executions issued by lawmen were a vital part of the ritual of death concluding a criminal proceeding in the United States. In this study, the author invites readers to an understanding of the death penalty in America with a collection...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bakken, Gordon Morris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Capital punishment > United States > History.
Capital punishment > United States > States.
Executions and executioners > United States.
Executions and executioners > United States > States.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Histoire.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > États.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment > U.S. states
Executions and executioners
Executions and executioners > U.S. states
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Invitation to an execution / Gordon Morris Bakken
  • Politics and capital punishment : the role of judicial, legislative, and executive decisions in the practice of death / Stacy L. Mallicoat
  • Conflicts of interest : business, death, and the bird court / Michael A. Pierson
  • Fear, capital punishment, and order : the construction and use of capital punishment statutes in early modern England and seventeenth-century New England / Patrick Callaway
  • Murder most foul : Native Americans and the evolution of the death penalty / Vanessa Gunther
  • The death penalty in federal law / Lonnie Wilson
  • Ovines and bovines / Ion Puschila
  • Amnesty International and the death penalty : toward global abolition / Alexander Karn
  • The celluloid execution : Hollywood films and capital punishment / Susanne Teepe Gaskins
  • The death penalty in the South / Michael A. Powell
  • The death penalty in the North / Dino E. Buenviaje
  • The death penalty in the Midwest / Melody M. Miyamoto, Charles W. Showalter
  • The death penalty in the Great Plains / John Gregory Jacobsen
  • The death penalty in the Pacific Northwest / Joseph Laythe
  • To do no harm : medicine and the death penalty in England and Texas / Norwood Andrews
  • Means of death : methods of execution in California, 1937-2007 / Thomas Bojorquez
  • Capital punishment and executions in Montana / Ellen Baumler
  • The death penalty in Arizona and New Mexico / Daniel Stackhouse
  • Arkansas and Missouri : the death penalty / Timothy R. Finch
  • Capital punishment and corporal punishment in the California gold mines / Andrea McDowell
  • Vigilantism during the Gold Rush / Mary Marki, Christopher Clayton Smith
  • The death penalty in California : 1857-1970 / Susan Sanchez-Barnett
  • Capital punishment suggested reading / Catherine Kaye
  • Appendix : List of men executed in Montana by Miner's and Legal Courts, 1862-2007.

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