capital punishment and the transformation of American culture, 1776-1865 /
Louis P. Masur.
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1989
(1991 [printing])
1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) :
illustrations, 1 facsimile
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-197) and index.
Introduction -- Ritual and reform in antebellum America -- The design of public executions in the early American republic -- The opposition to capital punishment in post-Revolutionary America -- The dream of reformation and the limits of reform -- The origins of private executions in America -- Anti-gallows activists and the commitment to moral reform -- The conflict over capital punishment in antebellum America -- Epilogue.
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Rites of execution.
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Capital punishment-- United States-- History.
Executions and executioners-- United States-- History.