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Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

David Garland

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The whole book, about 12 hours to read.

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Author
David Garland
Reading time
12 hours

Contents

  1. Prologue: The Exemplary Execution
  2. 1. A Peculiar Institution
  3. 2. The American Way of Death
  4. 3. Historical Modes of Capital Punishment
  5. 4. The Death Penalty’s Decline
  6. 5. Processes of Transformation
  7. 6. State and Society in America
  8. 7. Capital Punishment in America
  9. 8. An American Abolition
  10. 9. New Political and Cultural Meanings
  11. 10. Reinventing the Death Penalty
  12. 11. Death and Its Uses
  13. Epilogue: Discourse and Death

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