• Invitation to an execution : a history of the death penalty in the United States
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: a history of the death penalty in the United States
    [NT 47354] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: BakkenGordon Morris,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Albuquerque
    [NT 47263] Published: University of New Mexico Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2010
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (ix, 467 p.).
    [NT 47266] Subject: Executions and executioners - States - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Executions and executioners - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Capital punishment - States - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Capital punishment - History - United States -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826348586/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780826348586electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0826348580electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780826348562hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0826348564hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: 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
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