TY  - GEN
T1  - The death penalty : an American history
A1  - Banner, Stuart, 1963-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn655108570
AB  - A comprehensive account 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 horse- theft. Hangings 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. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as execution has become a quiet, sanitary, technological procedure, the death penalty is as divisive as ever. 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 understanding of America's ultimate punishment.
OP  - 385
CN  - HV8699.U5 B367 2002
SN  - 9780674020511
SN  - 0674020510
SN  - 0674010833
SN  - 9780674010833
SN  - 0674007514
SN  - 9780674007512
KW  - Capital punishment : United States : History.
KW  - Capital punishment : Moral and ethical aspects : United States.
KW  - United States : Social conditions.
KW  - Capital punishment.
KW  - Capital Punishment
KW  - United States
KW  - Peine de mort : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Peine de mort : Aspect moral : États-Unis.
KW  - États-Unis : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Peine de mort.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Penology.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : General.
KW  - Crime.
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Capital punishment : Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Todesstrafe
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - USA
KW  - Doodstraf.
KW  - Aspect moral.
KW  - Histoire.
KW  - Peine capitale.
KW  - États-Unis.
KW  - History
ER  -