Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition /
Garland, David.
Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / David Garland. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - 417 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : 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 -- Epilogue : discourse and death.
9780674057234 (alk. paper)
2010019967
Capital punishment--History.--United States
Discrimination in capital punishment--History.--United States
Decentralization in government--History.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
HV8699.U5 / .G36 2010
364.660973
Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / David Garland. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - 417 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : 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 -- Epilogue : discourse and death.
9780674057234 (alk. paper)
2010019967
Capital punishment--History.--United States
Discrimination in capital punishment--History.--United States
Decentralization in government--History.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
HV8699.U5 / .G36 2010
364.660973