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Giustizia da morire : voci umane dai bracci della morte degli Stati Uniti / Marco Cinque
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
CINQUE, Marco  
Salerno : Multimedia, 2000
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others]
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
Sarat Austin  
Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others]
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
Sarat Austin  
Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others]
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
Sarat Austin  
Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014
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Imprisoned by the past : Warren McCleskey and the American death penalty / / Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier
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.  
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]
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In this timeless time [[electronic resource] ] : living and dying on death row in America / / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian
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
Jackson Bruce <1936->  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012
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In this timeless time [[electronic resource] ] : living and dying on death row in America / / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian
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
Jackson Bruce <1936->  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012
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In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America / / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian
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
Jackson Bruce <1936->  
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012
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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
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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910457349003321
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
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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