edited by David Garland, Randall McGowen, and Michael Meranze
New York :
New York University Press,
c2011
ix, 232 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Getting the question right? Ways of thinking about the death penalty / Randall McGowen -- Modes of capital punishment: the death penalty in historical perspective / David Garland -- The death penalty: between law, sovereignty, and biopolitics / Michael Meranze -- Through the wrong end of the telescope: history, the death penalty, and the American experience / Randall McGowen -- Hanging and the English judges: the judicial politics of retention and abolition / Douglas Hay -- Interposition: segregation, capital punishment, and the forging of the post-New Deal political leader / Jonathan Simon -- The convict's two lives: civil and natural death in the American prison / Rebecca McLennan