TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garland,David
TI  - Peculiar institution: America's death penalty in an age of abolition 
SN  - 9780674057234 (alk. paper)
AV  - HV8699.U5 .G36 2010
U1  - 364.660973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Discrimination in capital punishment
KW  - Decentralization in government
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
N1  - 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
ER  -