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New. 0674007514. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: --Introduction 1 * 1 Terror, Blood, and Repentance 5 * 2 Hanging Day 24 * 3 Degrees of Death 53 * 4 The Origins of Opposition 88 * 5 Northern Reform, Southern Retention 112 * 6 Into the Jail Yard 144 * 7 Technological Cures 169 * 8 Decline 208 * 9 To the Supreme Court 231 * 10 Resurrection 267 * Epilogue 307 * App Counting Executions 313 * Notes 315 * Acknowledgments 371 * Index 373. DESCRIPTION: The death penalty arouses more passion than almost any other issue. While some of us 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 course in American history. Here, for the first time, we have 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 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. --with a bonus offer--
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