America's death penalty : between past and present by Garland, David; McGowen, Randall, 1948-; Meranze, Michael instant download

America's death penalty : between past and present by Garland, David; McGowen, Randall, 1948-; Meranze, Michael instant download

1 online resource (ix, 232 pages) :, Over the past three decades, the United States has embraced the death penalty with tenacious enthusiasm. While most of those countries whose legal systems and cultures are normally compared to the United States have abolished capital punishment, the United States continues to employ this ultimate tool of punishment. The death penalty has achieved an unparalleled prominence in our public life and left an indelible imprint on our politics and culture. It has also provoked intense scholarly debate, much of it devoted to explaining the roots of American exceptionalism. America's Death Penalty take, Includes bibliographical references and index, Introduction: Getting the question right? Ways of thinking about the death penalty / Randall McGowen -- Modes of capital punishment: the death penalty in historical perspective / David Garland -- The death penalty: between law, sovereignty, and biopolitics / Michael Meranze -- Through the wrong end of the telescope: history, the death penalty, and the American experience / Randall McGowen -- Hanging and the English judges: the judicial politics of retention and abolition / Douglas Hay -- Interposition: segregation, capital punishment, and the forging of the post-New Deal political leader / Jonathan Simon -- The convict's two lives: civil and natural death in the American prison / Rebecca McLennan, Print version record