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Rites of Execution : Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865

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Louis Masur's handsomely written account describes how, in the 1830s, public hangings were abandoned in favour of executions in the seclusion of prison yards.

Masur sees attitudes toward state killing from the Revolution to the Civil War as reflecting the nation's social thinking.

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Oxford University Press Inc
0195066634 / 9780195066630
Paperback / softback
10/10/1991
United States
English
208 pages : illustrations (black and white)
22 cm
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