2. Hanging Day

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Terror, Blood, and Repentance 5
6. 2. Hanging Day 24
7. 3. Degrees of Death 53
8. 4. The Origins of Opposition 88
9. 5. Northern Reform, Southern Retention 112
10. 6. Into the Jail Yard 144
11. 7. Technological Cures 169
12. 8. Decline 208
13. 9. To the Supreme Court 231
14. 10. Resurrection 267
15. Epilogue 307
16. Appendix: Counting Executions 313
17. Notes 315
18. Acknowledgments 371
19. Index 373