Project MUSE - Invitation to an Execution (original) (raw)

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Introduction: Invitation to an Execution

pp. 1-7

Chapter 1: Politics and Capital Punishment: The Role of Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Decisions in the Practice of Death

pp. 9-24

Chapter 2: Conflicts of Interest: Business, Death, and the Bird Court

pp. 25-45

Chapter 3: Fear, Capital Punishment, and Order: The Construction and Use of Cap ital Punishment Statutes in Ea rly Modern England and Seventeenth-Century New England

pp. 47-59

Chapter 4: Murder Most Foul: Native Americans and the Evolution of the Death Penalty

pp. 61-76

Chapter 5: The Death Penalty in Federal Law

pp. 77-95

Chapter 6: Ovines and Bovines

pp. 97-113

Chapter 7: Amnesty International and the Death Penalty: Toward Global Abolition

pp. 115-135

Chapter 8: The Celluloid Execution: Hollywood Films and Cap ital Punishment

pp. 137-190

Introduction II: Regional Analysis of the Death Penalty

pp. 193-201

Chapter 9: The Death Penalty in the South

pp. 203-214

Chapter 10: The Death Penalty in the North

pp. 215-226

Chapter 11: The Death Penalty in the Midwest

pp. 227-242

Chapter 12: The Death Penalty in the Great Plains

pp. 243-263

Chapter 13: The Death Penalty in the Pacific Northwest

pp. 265-283

Chapter 14: To Do No Harm: Medicine and the Death Penalty in England and Texas

pp. 285-319

Chapter 15: Means of Death: Methods of Execution in California, 1937–2007

pp. 321-337

Chapter 16: Capital Punishment and Executions in Montana

pp. 339-351

Chapter 17: The Death Penalty in Arizona and New Mexico

pp. 353-372

Chapter 18: Arkansas and Missouri: The Death Penalty

pp. 373-388

Chapter 19: Capital Punishment and Corporal Punishment

pp. 389-401

Chapter 20: Vigilantism during the Gold Rush

pp. 403-411

Chapter 21: The Death Penalty in California: 1857–1970

pp. 413-430

Chapter 22: Capital Punishment Suggested Reading

pp. 431-448