Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to dea
"This book chronicles use of the death penalty by civil and military authorities in what is now the state of New Jersey. All documented executions conducted in
On August 5, 1639, Gregory Peterson, a soldier at the Fort Amsterdam garrison, was executed by a firing squad for an unknown act of mutiny. Peterson was the fir
For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder. This book offers an account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists
This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the