Garland, David. <br/><br/>
Peculiar institution :  America's death penalty in an age of abolition / 
David Garland. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  2010. 
 - 417 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674057234 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010019967 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--History.--United States<br/>Discrimination in capital punishment--History.--United States<br/>Decentralization in government--History.--United States<br/>Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8699.U5  / .G36 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.660973