The Death Penalty

An American History

Stuart Banner

  • 2002 Langum Project for Historical Literature

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Terror, Blood, and Repentance

2. Hanging Day

3. Degrees of Death

4. The Origins of Opposition

5. Northern Reform, Southern Retention

6. Into the Jail Yard

7. Technological Cures

8. Decline

9. To the Supreme Court

10. Resurrection

Epilogue

Appendix: Counting Executions

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Death Penalty
  • A photo of the author

Stuart Banner is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles.