Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-393) and index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-393) and index.
Contents:
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 -- Discourse and death.
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