TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodheart,Lawrence B.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The solemn sentence of death: capital punishment in Connecticut 
SN  - 9781613760246
AV  - HV8699.U6 C848 2011
U1  - 364.6609746 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Connecticut
KW  - History
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the paradox of capital punishment -- Biblical retribution, 1636/1699 -- The emergence of Yankee justice, 1700/1772 -- The era of Newgate Prison, 1773/1827 -- The debate over capital punishment, 1828/1879 -- The menace of the criminal class, 1880/1929 -- The waning of executions, 1930/1960 -- An unofficial moratorium, 1961/2004 -- The execution of Michael Ross, 2005 -- Epilogue: an unworkable death penalty
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613760246/
ER  -