Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / David Garland.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.Description: 417 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780674057234 (alk. paper)
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- HV8699.U5 .G36 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : 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 -- Epilogue : discourse and death.