- Prologue: The Exemplary Execution
- 1. A Peculiar Institution
- 2. The American Way of Death
- 3. Historical Modes of Capital Punishment
- 4. The Death Penalty’s Decline
- 5. Processes of Transformation
- 6. State and Society in America
- 7. Capital Punishment in America
- 8. An American Abolition
- 9. New Political and Cultural Meanings
- 10. Reinventing the Death Penalty
- 11. Death and Its Uses
- Epilogue: Discourse and Death
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Peculiar Institution
America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
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$25.00 • £21.95 • €22.95
ISBN 9780674066106
Publication Date: 10/22/2012
432 pages
5-7/8 x 8-15/16 inches
3 figs, 3 tables
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Awards & Accolades
- 2010 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers
- A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2011