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Invitation to an execution : a history of the death penalty in the United States / edited by Gordon Morris Bakken.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States--History.
- Capital punishment.
- Capital punishment--United States--States.
- Executions and executioners--United States.
- Executions and executioners.
- Executions and executioners--United States--States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These original essays examine the complex history of the death penalty, focusing on specific geographic areas to illuminate the circumstances of law and politics.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283636681
- 1283636689
- 9780826348586
- 0826348580
- OCLC:
- 826501132
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