America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present

ISBN: 9780814732670 出版年：2011 页码：243 Garland New York University Press

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Getting the Question Right? Ways of Thinking about the Death Penalty Randall McGowen 2 Modes of Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty in Historical Perspective David Garland 3 The Death Penalty: Between Law, Sovereignty, and Biopolitics Michael Meranze 4 Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: History, the Death Penalty, and the American Experience Randall McGowen 5 Hanging and the English Judges: The Judicial Politics of Retention and Abolition Douglas Hay 6 Interposition: Segregation, Capital Punishment, and the Forging of the Post-New Deal Political Leader Jonathan Simon 7 The Convict's Two Lives: Civil and Natural Death in the American Prison Rebecca McLennan About the Contributors Index