j u s t c r i m : "a peculiar institution" for a very long time

December 06, 2010

"a peculiar institution" for a very long time

"So much has been written and said on the subject of capital punishments that it seems almost like presumptive vanity to pursue the topic any further." "The Cabinet, No. LXXV," Philadelphia Repertory 2 (1812), quoted in David Garland, Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 9.

Dec 6, 2010 3:01:41 PM | CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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