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Invitation to an execution = a history of the death penalty in the United States /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Invitation to an execution/ edited by Gordon Morris Bakken.
Reminder of title:	a history of the death penalty in the United States /
other author:	Bakken, Gordon Morris.
Published:	Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press, : c2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 467 p.).
Subject:	Executions and executioners - States. - United States -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780826348586 (electronic bk.)

Invitation to an execution = a history of the death penalty in the United States /
Invitation to an executiona history of the death penalty in the United States /[electronic resource] :edited by Gordon Morris Bakken. - Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (ix, 467 p.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Invitation to an execution / Gordon Morris Bakken -- Politics and capital punishment: the role of judicial, legislative, and executive decisions in the practice of death / Stacy L. Mallicoat -- Conflicts of interest: business, death, and the bird court / Michael A. Pierson -- Fear, capital punishment, and order: the construction and useof capital punishment statutes in early modern England and seventeenth-century New England / Patrick Callaway -- Murder most foul: Native Americans and the evolution of the death penalty / Vanessa Gunther -- The death penalty in federal law / Lonnie Wilson -- Ovines and bovines / Ion Puschila -- Amnesty International and the death penalty:toward global abolition / Alexander Karn -- The celluloid execution: Hollywood films and capital punishment / Susanne Teepe Gaskins -- The death penalty in the south / Michael A. Powell -- The death penalty in the north / Dino E. Buenviaje -- The death penalty in the Midwest / Melody M. Miyamoto, Charles W. Showalter -- The death penalty in the great plains / John Gregory Jacobsen -- The death penalty in the Pacific Northwest / JosephLaythe -- To do no harm: medicine and the death penalty in England andTexas / Norwood Andrews -- Means of death: methods of execution in California, 1937-2007 / Thomas Bojorquez -- Capital punishment and executions in Montana / Ellen Baumler -- The death penalty in Arizona and New Mexico / Daniel Stackhouse -- Arkansas and Missouri: the death penalty / Timothy R. Finch -- Capital punishment and corporal punishment in theCalifornia gold mines / Andrea McDowell -- Vigilantism during the GoldRush / Mary Marki, Christopher Clayton Smith -- The death penalty in California: 1857-1970 / Susan Sanchez-Barnett -- Capital punishment suggested reading / Catherine Kaye.

ISBN: 9780826348586 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

946519
Executions and executioners
--States.--United States

LC Class. No.: HV8699.U5 / I58 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 364.660973

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