03341nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10492248 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100315s2010 nmua sb 001 0 eng d 2010010258 9780826348562 (cloth : alk. paper) 0826348564 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780826348586 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)757917116 n-us--- HV8699.U5 I58 2010eb 364.660973 22 Invitation to an execution [electronic resource] : a history of the death penalty in the United States / edited by Gordon Morris Bakken. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010. ix, 467 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 use of 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 / Joseph Laythe -- To do no harm: medicine and the death penalty in England and Texas / 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 the California gold mines / Andrea McDowell -- Vigilantism during the Gold Rush / Mary Marki, Christopher Clayton Smith -- The death penalty in California: 1857-1970 / Susan Sanchez-Barnett -- Capital punishment suggested reading / Catherine Kaye. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Capital punishment United States History. Capital punishment United States States. Executions and executioners United States. Executions and executioners United States States. Electronic books. local Bakken, Gordon Morris. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10492248 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 125871 125871