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The death penalty : an American history / Stuart Banner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banner, Stuart, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States--History.
- Capital punishment.
- Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- History.
- Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- A professor of law gives a comprehensive account of the death penalty in the United States over the past four centuries. Recreating what it was like to be a condemned prisoner, the executioner, and eyewitness, Banner moves beyond the debates to give a much-needed new perspective. 12 halftones.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674007514
- OCLC:
- 47658928
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