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The death penalty: an American history
Banner, Stuart, 1963-
Year: c2002.
Publisher:  Harvard University Press. 
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Frontmatter
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Terror, Blood, and Repentance
2. Hanging Day
3. Degrees of Death
4. The Origins of Opposition
5. Northern Reform, Southern Retention
6. Into the Jail Yard
7. Technological Cures
8. Decline
9. To the Supreme Court
10. Resurrection
Epilogue
Appendix: Counting Executions
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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Title: The death penalty : an American history Stuart Banner.
Author: Banner, Stuart, 1963-
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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2008
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Source Version: The death penalty : an American history Stuart Banner. 
Banner, Stuart, 1963-
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c2002.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.05192
Subject Headings: • Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
• Capital punishment -- United States -- History
• United States -- Social conditions
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