Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

by David Garland and David Garland

Book Overview

The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states- a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057236
• ISBN13: 9780674057234
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 417 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.4"