The death penalty : an American history / / Stuart Banner
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| Autore: |
Banner Stuart <1963->
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| Titolo: |
The death penalty : an American history / / Stuart Banner
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource ([ix], 385 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill., facsims |
| Disciplina: | 364.660973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Capital punishment - United States - History |
| Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-369) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Counting Executions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The death penalty arouses more passion than almost any other issue. This account of the death penalty in the United States tells the story of dramatic changes, over four centuries, in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The death penalty |
| ISBN: | 9780674020511 |
| 0674020510 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910960289003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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