Giustizia da morire : voci umane dai bracci della morte degli Stati Uniti / Marco Cinque |
Autore | CINQUE, Marco |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Salerno : Multimedia, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 159 p. : ill. ; 21 cm |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Collana | Altre Americhe |
Soggetto topico | Pena di morte - Stati Uniti d'America - Testimonianze |
ISBN | 88-86203-31-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISA-990003458230203316 |
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others] |
Autore | Sarat Austin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Soggetto topico |
Executions and executioners - United States - History
Capital punishment - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8047-9172-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; CHAPTER 1- The Mere Extinguishment of Life? Technological Efficiency, Botched Executions, and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment in the United States; CHAPTER 2- A Clumsy, Inefficient, Inhuman Thing Death by Hanging; CHAPTER 3- When Science Fails Electrocution; CHAPTER 4- A Short and Unhappy History The Gas Chamber; CHAPTER 5- "How Enviable a Quiet Death" Lethal Injection; CHAPTER 6- Botched Executions and the Struggle to End Capital Punishment; Appendix A; Appendix B; Acknowledgments; A Note on Collaboration; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464376703321 |
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others] |
Autore | Sarat Austin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Soggetto topico |
Executions and executioners - United States - History
Capital punishment - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-8047-9172-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; CHAPTER 1- The Mere Extinguishment of Life? Technological Efficiency, Botched Executions, and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment in the United States; CHAPTER 2- A Clumsy, Inefficient, Inhuman Thing Death by Hanging; CHAPTER 3- When Science Fails Electrocution; CHAPTER 4- A Short and Unhappy History The Gas Chamber; CHAPTER 5- "How Enviable a Quiet Death" Lethal Injection; CHAPTER 6- Botched Executions and the Struggle to End Capital Punishment; Appendix A; Appendix B; Acknowledgments; A Note on Collaboration; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786933803321 |
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others] |
Autore | Sarat Austin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Soggetto topico |
Executions and executioners - United States - History
Capital punishment - United States - History |
ISBN | 0-8047-9172-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; CHAPTER 1- The Mere Extinguishment of Life? Technological Efficiency, Botched Executions, and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment in the United States; CHAPTER 2- A Clumsy, Inefficient, Inhuman Thing Death by Hanging; CHAPTER 3- When Science Fails Electrocution; CHAPTER 4- A Short and Unhappy History The Gas Chamber; CHAPTER 5- "How Enviable a Quiet Death" Lethal Injection; CHAPTER 6- Botched Executions and the Struggle to End Capital Punishment; Appendix A; Appendix B; Acknowledgments; A Note on Collaboration; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824346803321 |
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Imprisoned by the past : Warren McCleskey and the American death penalty / / Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier |
Autore | Kirchmeier Jeffrey L. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Soggetto topico | Capital punishment - United States |
Soggetto non controllato | McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987) |
ISBN |
0-19-023774-0
0-19-022561-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A death in Dixie -- The trial of Warren McCleskey -- Offie Evans and McCleskey v. Zant -- The first limits : the early American death penalty through the 1850s -- Wars and death penalty abolition : the Civil War World War II -- A time of change : American society and the death penalty 1950s through the 1960s -- Into the courthouse : the 1970s abolition strategy -- A new era : a new U.S. death penalty returns in the late 1970s -- Starting over : executions resume in the 1970s and 1980s -- Lynching and race in America -- Race and the courts -- Warren McCleskey and the Baldus study -- The Supreme Court and McCleskey v. Kemp -- Mitigation and reform -- Warren McCleskey and the electric chair -- Other American execution methods -- The unstoppable death penalty after McCleskey into the early 1990s -- New abolitionist voices in the 1990s -- Innocence and the American death penalty -- A moratorium movement emerges in the 1990s -- The early twenty-first century death penalty in the courts -- The early twenty-first century death penalty in U.S. politics -- Escaping from imprisonment of the past. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154322903321 |
Kirchmeier Jeffrey L.
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In this timeless time [[electronic resource] ] : living and dying on death row in America / / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian |
Autore | Jackson Bruce <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ChristianDiane <1939-> |
Collana | Documentary arts and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Death row - United States
Death row inmates - United States Capital punishment - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8078-8264-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface. On Death Row; Part I. Pictures; 1. The Row; 2. Food; 3. In the J-23 dayroom; 4. A volleyball game in the cage; 5. Hands and mirrors; 6. Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time; 7. Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated; 8. Twelve dead men; Part II. Words; 1. Being there; 2. Killable killers; 3. Dangerous people; 4. Good time and hard time; 5. The prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White; 6. Terminology; 7. Getting to J
8. Ellis's yellow line 9. Visitors; 10. Counts; 11. Recreation; 12. Porters, floor boys, building tenders; 13. Noise; 14. Night, Brandon, Emily, and George; 15. Violence; 16. Craziness and boredom; 17. All the things a man might do on the Row; 18. Sockets and glass; 19. Nowhere land; 20. Time; 21. Living space and killing space; 22. The death house; 23. Getting off the Row; 24. Why execute?; 25. Equity: Callins v. James; 26. Giving up on death; 27. Trends; 28. Records; Part III. Working; 1. Avoiding the Row; 2. An invitation; 3. Building tenders; 4. Documenting the Row; 5. Bona fides 6. "I'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" 7. Trust; 8. Why talk?; 9. Punishing Diane; 10. Testifying; 11. Screening Death Row; 12. Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer; 13. In This Timeless Time; Appendix 1. Layout of Ellis Unit inside the Fence; Appendix 2. The DR Three-Ring Binder; Appendix 3. Justice Thurgood Marshall's Dissent in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Information; Cases; A Technical Note; Index; About Death Row |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461713603321 |
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In this timeless time [[electronic resource] ] : living and dying on death row in America / / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian |
Autore | Jackson Bruce <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ChristianDiane <1939-> |
Collana | Documentary arts and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Death row - United States
Death row inmates - United States Capital punishment - United States |
ISBN | 0-8078-8264-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface. On Death Row; Part I. Pictures; 1. The Row; 2. Food; 3. In the J-23 dayroom; 4. A volleyball game in the cage; 5. Hands and mirrors; 6. Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time; 7. Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated; 8. Twelve dead men; Part II. Words; 1. Being there; 2. Killable killers; 3. Dangerous people; 4. Good time and hard time; 5. The prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White; 6. Terminology; 7. Getting to J
8. Ellis's yellow line 9. Visitors; 10. Counts; 11. Recreation; 12. Porters, floor boys, building tenders; 13. Noise; 14. Night, Brandon, Emily, and George; 15. Violence; 16. Craziness and boredom; 17. All the things a man might do on the Row; 18. Sockets and glass; 19. Nowhere land; 20. Time; 21. Living space and killing space; 22. The death house; 23. Getting off the Row; 24. Why execute?; 25. Equity: Callins v. James; 26. Giving up on death; 27. Trends; 28. Records; Part III. Working; 1. Avoiding the Row; 2. An invitation; 3. Building tenders; 4. Documenting the Row; 5. Bona fides 6. "I'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" 7. Trust; 8. Why talk?; 9. Punishing Diane; 10. Testifying; 11. Screening Death Row; 12. Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer; 13. In This Timeless Time; Appendix 1. Layout of Ellis Unit inside the Fence; Appendix 2. The DR Three-Ring Binder; Appendix 3. Justice Thurgood Marshall's Dissent in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Information; Cases; A Technical Note; Index; About Death Row |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790013703321 |
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In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America / / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian |
Autore | Jackson Bruce <1936-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ChristianDiane <1939-> |
Collana | Documentary arts and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Death row - United States
Death row inmates - United States Capital punishment - United States |
ISBN | 0-8078-8264-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface. On Death Row; Part I. Pictures; 1. The Row; 2. Food; 3. In the J-23 dayroom; 4. A volleyball game in the cage; 5. Hands and mirrors; 6. Eight who were resentenced to life and are now doing time; 7. Three who are still there, one who was resentenced to life and then paroled, and one who was set free after twenty-one years and then exonerated; 8. Twelve dead men; Part II. Words; 1. Being there; 2. Killable killers; 3. Dangerous people; 4. Good time and hard time; 5. The prisoner Jack Smith and the late Excell White; 6. Terminology; 7. Getting to J
8. Ellis's yellow line 9. Visitors; 10. Counts; 11. Recreation; 12. Porters, floor boys, building tenders; 13. Noise; 14. Night, Brandon, Emily, and George; 15. Violence; 16. Craziness and boredom; 17. All the things a man might do on the Row; 18. Sockets and glass; 19. Nowhere land; 20. Time; 21. Living space and killing space; 22. The death house; 23. Getting off the Row; 24. Why execute?; 25. Equity: Callins v. James; 26. Giving up on death; 27. Trends; 28. Records; Part III. Working; 1. Avoiding the Row; 2. An invitation; 3. Building tenders; 4. Documenting the Row; 5. Bona fides 6. "I'd like to cut your fuckin' throat" 7. Trust; 8. Why talk?; 9. Punishing Diane; 10. Testifying; 11. Screening Death Row; 12. Brent Bullock Jr. and Norman Mailer; 13. In This Timeless Time; Appendix 1. Layout of Ellis Unit inside the Fence; Appendix 2. The DR Three-Ring Binder; Appendix 3. Justice Thurgood Marshall's Dissent in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Further Information; Cases; A Technical Note; Index; About Death Row |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811866303321 |
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Invitation to an execution [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the death penalty in the United States / / edited by Gordon Morris Bakken |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BakkenGordon Morris |
Soggetto topico |
Capital punishment - United States - History
Capital punishment - United States - States Executions and executioners - United States Executions and executioners - United States - States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-63668-9
0-8263-4858-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 | ||
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Invitation to an execution [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the death penalty in the United States / / edited by Gordon Morris Bakken |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.660973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | BakkenGordon Morris |
Soggetto topico |
Capital punishment - United States - History
Capital punishment - United States - States Executions and executioners - United States Executions and executioners - United States - States |
ISBN |
1-283-63668-9
0-8263-4858-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781616503321 |
Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 | ||
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