Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of America Culture, 1776-1865 by Louis P. Masur

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

Louis P. Masur

224 pages paperback

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Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Western societies abandoned public executions in favor of private punishments, primarily confinement in penitentiaries and private executions. The transition, guided by a reconceptualization of the...

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