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050 00 $aHV8699.U5$bB367 2002
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100 1 $aBanner, Stuart,$d1963-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97073082
245 14 $aThe death penalty :$ban American history /$cStuart Banner.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $a385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-369) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tTerror, Blood, and Repentance --$g2.$tHanging Day --$g3.$tDegrees of Death --$g4.$tThe Origins of Opposition --$g5.$tNorthern Reform, Southern Retention --$g6.$tInto the Jail Yard --$g7.$tTechnological Cures --$g8.$tDecline --$g9.$tTo the Supreme Court --$g10.$tResurrection --$gApp.$tCounting Executions.
520 1 $a"The death penalty arouses our passion as do few other issues. While some believe execution is just and reasonable punishment, others view it as an inhumane and barbaric act. The intensity of feeling that capital punishment provokes obscures its long and varied history in this country.".
520 8 $a"Here, for the first time, we have a comprehensive history of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner tells the story of dramatic changes, over four centuries, in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, death was the standard penalty for a laundry list of crimes - from adultery to murder, from arson to stealing horses.
520 8 $aHangings were public events, staged before enormous audiences, attended by women and men, young and old, black and white. Early on, the gruesome spectacle was an explicitly religious event - replete with sermons, confessions, and last-minute penitence - to promote the salvation of both the condemned person and the spectators. Through the nineteenth century, in response to changing mores, execution became increasingly secular and private.
520 8 $aIn the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as execution has become a quiet, sanitary, technological procedure, the death penalty is as divisive as ever.".
520 8 $a"Re-creating what it was like to be the condemned prisoner, the executioner, and the eyewitness, Banner moves beyond the debates to give us an unprecedented understanding of America's ultimate punishment. With nearly four thousand inmates now on death row, and almost one hundred being executed each year, this book provides a much-needed perspective on an age-old issue that continues to haunt us today."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118340
650 0 $aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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