RT Book
T1 Peculiar institution: America's death penalty in an age of abolition
A1 Garland, David 1955-
LA English
PP Cambridge, Mass.
PB Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
YR 2010
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/635116634
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV8699.U5
SN 9780199594993
SN 9780674057234
K1 Capital Punishment : United States : History
K1 Discrimination in capital punishment : United States : History
K1 Decentralization in government : United States : History
K1 Power (Social sciences) : United States : History
K1 USA : Todesstrafe