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2. Modes of Capital Punishment

The Death Penalty in Historical Perspective
  • David Garland
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America's Death Penalty
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© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. Introduction: Getting the Question Right? Ways of Thinking about the Death Penalty 1
  5. 2. Modes of Capital Punishment 30
  6. 3. The Death Penalty 72
  7. 4. Through the Wrong End of the Telescope 106
  8. 5. Hanging and the English Judges 129
  9. 6. Interposition 166
  10. 7. The Convict’s Two Lives 191
  11. About the Contributors 221
  12. Index 223
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814732663.003.0002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. Introduction: Getting the Question Right? Ways of Thinking about the Death Penalty 1
  5. 2. Modes of Capital Punishment 30
  6. 3. The Death Penalty 72
  7. 4. Through the Wrong End of the Telescope 106
  8. 5. Hanging and the English Judges 129
  9. 6. Interposition 166
  10. 7. The Convict’s Two Lives 191
  11. About the Contributors 221
  12. Index 223
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