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Garland, David.
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Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States -- History.
Decentralization in government -- United States -- History.
Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
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Peculiar institution : America's death penalty in an age of abolition / David Garland.
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Garland, David.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Capital punishment -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in capital punishment -- United States -- History.
Decentralization in government -- United States -- History.
Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History.
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9780674057234 (alk. paper) :
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417 p. ; 25 cm.
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Prologue : the exemplary execution -- A peculiar institution -- The American way of death -- Historical modes of capital punishment -- The death penalty's decline -- Processes of transformation -- State and society in america -- Capital punishment in America -- An American abolition -- New political and cultural meanings -- Reinventing the death penalty -- Death and its uses -- Epilogue : discourse and death.
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