The Death Penalty: An American History

David Banner’ extensive historical account of the death penalty The Death Penalty: An American History has been widely acclaimed by journalists, historians, and people interested in the United States’ legacy of capital punishment.

In this well-researched and clear account…Banner charts how and why this country went from having one of the world’s mildest punitive systems to one of its harshest.

-Publisher’s Weekly

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