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The death penalty : An American history - Cambridge Harvard University Press 2002 - 385p ix

Table of 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

ISBN: 9780674010833

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Capital Punishment - U S A 2. Capital Punishment - Moral & Ethical Aspects3. Social Conditions

Dewey Class. No.: 364.660973 / BAN