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Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Preface 10 Acknowledgments 16 Chapter 1 - Murder and Due Proceeding in Colonial Massachusetts 20 Chapter 2 - ￢ﾀﾜHideous Consequences￢ﾀﾝ and the Declaration of Rights 58 Chapter 3 - ￢ﾀﾜUnder Sentence of Death￢ﾀﾝ: The First Effort to Abolish the Death Penalty 98 Chapter 4 - ￢ﾀﾜThe Monster Petition￢ﾀﾝ 125 Chapter 5 - A ￢ﾀﾜTong War￢ﾀﾝ and the Second Effort to Abolish the Death Penalty 156 Chapter 6 - Sacco and Vanzetti 188 Chapter 7 - The Insanity Defense 227 Chapter 8 - The Right to an Attorney and Criminal Discovery 270 Chapter 9 - Confession: Neither Fear nor Favor 292 Chapter 10 - The Right of the Accused to an Impartial Jury 315 Chapter 11 - ￢ﾀﾜSuccess￢ﾀﾔAt Long Last￢ﾀﾝ 349 Chapter 12 - The Abolition of the Death Penalty 374 Epilogue: After Abolition 416 Notes 426 Index 509 Back Cover 514 Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press,Published:2008,ISBN:9781613761564,Related ISBN:9781558496330,Language:English,OCLC:794701577 For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder, but with a sharp eye on “due proceeding” and against the backdrop of popular ambivalence about the death penalty's morality,

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Author

Rogers, Alan

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558496323

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Law, Humanities