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The American way of death. (book review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2002 by Kurtz, Josh
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The Death Penalty: An American History By Stuart Banner. Harvard University Press, 385 pages, $29.95
WARNING: THIS BOOK is not for the squeamish. With graphic accounts of snapped necks and roasted flesh and rabidlike reactions to lethal injections, Stuart Banner spares no detail in describing American methods of execution.
Yet Banner's timely book on the history of capital punishment in America manages to be free from sensationalism. It is comprehensively researched, with a calm and modulated narrative style. He covers everything from American attitudes toward the death ...
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