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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	1997
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
ISBN:	9781604730159
EAN-Code:	9781604730159
Verlag:	University Press Of Mississippi
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D 11 mm
Gewicht:	298 gr
Seiten:	200
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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The criminal justice system in America is as powerful a shaper of history and society as its better-known counterparts¿the military, politics, government, and technology. In a country that lacks a mandatory death sentence for specific crimes, the American strategy for execution proves to be based more upon distinctions between offenders than upon distinctions between offenses. Five important novels--McTeague, An American Tragedy, Native Son, In Cold Blood and The Executioner¿s Song¿bring readers a vivid awareness of Americäs punitive codes. Each details the story of a life that leads to the gallows. Sentenced to Death places these works against the historical background of crime and capital punishment in America, a nation where public discourse on crime is dominated by images of the electric chair and the gas chamber, by maximum security prisons, by hardened convicts out on parole. Such images, in turn mirror and shape the exercise of punitive power. This pro