Peculiar institution
Subtitle: America's death penalty in an age of abolition
By: David Garland
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674057234
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the exemplary execution; title: A peculiar institution; title: The American way of death; title: Historical modes of capital punishment; title: The death penalty's decline; title: Processes of transformation; title: State and society in america; title: Capital punishment in America; title: An American abolition; title: New political and cultural meanings; title: Reinventing the death penalty; title: Death and its uses; title: Epilogue : discourse and death.