America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present

Contents

| vii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Getting the Question Right? 1 Ways of Thinking about the Death Penalty Randall McGowen 2 Modes of Capital Punishment: 30 The Death Penalty in Historical Perspective David Garland 3 The Death Penalty: 72 Between Law, Sovereignty, and Biopolitics Michael Meranze 4 Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: 106 History, the Death Penalty, and the American Experience Randall McGowen 5 Hanging and the English Judges: 129 The Judicial Politics of Retention and Abolition Douglas Hay 6 Interposition: Segregation, Capital Punishment, 166 and the Forging of the Post–New Deal Political Leader Jonathan Simon 7 The Convict’s Two Lives: 191 Civil and Natural Death in the American Prison Rebecca McLennan About the Contributors 221 Index 223 ...