Rites of Execution
Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
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Beskrivning
Louis Masur's handsomely written account describes how, in the 1830s, public hangings were abandoned in favour of executions in the seclusion of prison yards. Masur sees attitudes toward state killing from the Revolution to the Civil War as reflecting the nation's social thinking.