Invitation to an execution : a history of the death penalty in the United States /
"Until the early twentieth century, printed invitations to executions issued by lawmen were a vital part of the ritual of death concluding a criminal proceeding in the United States. In this study, the author invites readers to an understanding of the death penalty in America with a collection...
| Други автори: | Bakken, Gordon Morris. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Albuquerque, N.M. :
University of New Mexico Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=407082 |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : Invitation to an execution / Gordon Morris Bakken
- Politics and capital punishment : the role of judicial, legislative, and executive decisions in the practice of death / Stacy L. Mallicoat
- Conflicts of interest : business, death, and the bird court / Michael A. Pierson
- Fear, capital punishment, and order : the construction and use of capital punishment statutes in early modern England and seventeenth-century New England / Patrick Callaway
- Murder most foul : Native Americans and the evolution of the death penalty / Vanessa Gunther
- The death penalty in federal law / Lonnie Wilson
- Ovines and bovines / Ion Puschila
- Amnesty International and the death penalty : toward global abolition / Alexander Karn
- The celluloid execution : Hollywood films and capital punishment / Susanne Teepe Gaskins
- The death penalty in the South / Michael A. Powell
- The death penalty in the North / Dino E. Buenviaje
- The death penalty in the Midwest / Melody M. Miyamoto, Charles W. Showalter
- The death penalty in the Great Plains / John Gregory Jacobsen
- The death penalty in the Pacific Northwest / Joseph Laythe
- To do no harm : medicine and the death penalty in England and Texas / Norwood Andrews
- Means of death : methods of execution in California, 1937-2007 / Thomas Bojorquez
- Capital punishment and executions in Montana / Ellen Baumler
- The death penalty in Arizona and New Mexico / Daniel Stackhouse
- Arkansas and Missouri : the death penalty / Timothy R. Finch
- Capital punishment and corporal punishment in the California gold mines / Andrea McDowell
- Vigilantism during the Gold Rush / Mary Marki, Christopher Clayton Smith
- The death penalty in California : 1857-1970 / Susan Sanchez-Barnett
- Capital punishment suggested reading / Catherine Kaye
- Appendix : List of men executed in Montana by Miner's and Legal Courts, 1862-2007.