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- Condition
- Subject Area
- Law, True Crime, History
- Subject
- Murder / General, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Legal History, United States / General
- ISBN
- 9781558496330
- EAN
- 9781558496330
- Publication Name
- Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
ISBN-10
1558496335
ISBN-13
9781558496330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60678493
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Publication Name
Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
Language
English
Subject
Murder / General, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Legal History, United States / General
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, True Crime, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-022051
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A learned, detailed narrative and analysis of the legislative and judicial history of capital punishment in New England's most populous and prominent state. . . . Rogers' conscientious, thoroughly informed account rewards students of legal, political, social, and cultural history. His is a complicated story with few straight lines, but the book's clear prose and shrewd deployment of case studies and anecdotes enables readers to grasp points of law in their political as well as juridical contexts."--New England Quarterly"The range and depth of coverage are impressive. . . . The twelve chapters address key aspects of jurisprudence, such as defendant rights, the insanity issue, the right to an attorney, criminal discovery, confession, and the selection of an impartial jury. . . . This is masterful scholarship on an immensely important subject."--Lawrence Goodheart, author of Mad Yankees"This book is a perfect model for any future death penalty historian--one can only hope that Rogers's successors will do for states such as Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio what he has done for Massachusetts."--Hugo A. Bedau, author of The Death Penalty in America, A learned, detailed narrative and analysis of the legislative and judicial history of capital punishment in New England's most populous and prominent state.... Rogers' conscientious, thoroughly informed account rewards students of legal, political, social, and cultural history. His is a complicated story with few straight lines, but the book's clear prose and shrewd deployment of case studies and anecdotes enables readers to grasp points of law in their political as well as juridical contexts., "A learned, detailed narrative and analysis of the legislative and judicial history of capital punishment in New England's most populous and prominent state. . . . Rogers' conscientious, thoroughly informed account rewards students of legal, political, social, and cultural history. His is a complicated story with few straight lines, but the book's clear prose and shrewd deployment of case studies and anecdotes enables readers to grasp points of law in their political as well as juridical contexts."--New England Quarterly "The range and depth of coverage are impressive. . . . The twelve chapters address key aspects of jurisprudence, such as defendant rights, the insanity issue, the right to an attorney, criminal discovery, confession, and the selection of an impartial jury. . . . This is masterful scholarship on an immensely important subject."--Lawrence Goodheart, author of Mad Yankees "This book is a perfect model for any future death penalty historian--one can only hope that Rogers's successors will do for states such as Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio what he has done for Massachusetts."--Hugo A. Bedau, author of The Death Penalty in America, "A learned, detailed narrative and analysis of the legislative and judicial history of capital punishment in New England's most populous and prominent state. . . . Rogers' conscientious, thoroughly informed account rewards students of legal, political, social, and cultural history. His is a complicated story with few straight lines, but the book's clear prose and shrewd deployment of case studies and anecdotes enables readers to grasp points of law in their political as well as juridical contexts."-- New England Quarterly "The range and depth of coverage are impressive. . . . The twelve chapters address key aspects of jurisprudence, such as defendant rights, the insanity issue, the right to an attorney, criminal discovery, confession, and the selection of an impartial jury. . . . This is masterful scholarship on an immensely important subject."--Lawrence Goodheart, author of Mad Yankees "This book is a perfect model for any future death penalty historian--one can only hope that Rogers's successors will do for states such as Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio what he has done for Massachusetts."--Hugo A. Bedau, author of The Death Penalty in America
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
345.744/0773
Synopsis
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, cruelty, efficacy, and constitutionality. In this authoritative book, Alan Rogers offers a comprehensive account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts.In the seventeenth century, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts General Court understood murder to be a sin and a threat to the colony's well-being, but the Puritans also drastically reduced the crimes for which death was the prescribed penalty and expanded a capital defendant's rights. Following the Revolution, Americans denounced the death penalty as "British and brutish" and the state's Supreme Judicial Court embraced its role as protector of the rights extended to all men by the Massachusetts Constitution. In the 1830s popular opposition nearly stopped the machinery of death and a vote in the Massachusetts House fell just short of abolishing capital punishment.A post--Civil War effort extending civil rights to all men also stimulated significant changes in criminal procedure. A "monster petition" begging the governor to spare the life of a murderer convicted on slight circumstantial evidence and the grim prospect of executing nine Chinese men found guilty of murder fueled a passionate debate about the death penalty in the decade before World War I.The trials and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti focused unwanted international and national attention on Massachusetts. This was a turning point. Sara Ehrmann took charge of the newly formed Massachusetts Council Against the Death Penalty, relentlessly lobbied the legislature, and convinced a string of governors not to sign death warrants. In the 1970s the focus shifted to the courts, and eventually, in 1980, the Supreme Judicial Court abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it violated the Massachusetts Constitution., 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, cruelty, efficacy, and constitutionality. In this authoritative book, Alan Rogers offers a comprehensive account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts. In the seventeenth century, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts General Court understood murder to be a sin and a threat to the colony's well-being, but the Puritans also drastically reduced the crimes for which death was the prescribed penalty and expanded a capital defendant's rights. Following the Revolution, Americans denounced the death penalty as "British and brutish" and the state's Supreme Judicial Court embraced its role as protector of the rights extended to all men by the Massachusetts Constitution. In the 1830s popular opposition nearly stopped the machinery of death and a vote in the Massachusetts House fell just short of abolishing capital punishment. A post-Civil War effort extending civil rights to all men also stimulated significant changes in criminal procedure. A "monster petition" begging the governor to spare the life of a murderer convicted on slight circumstantial evidence and the grim prospect of executing nine Chinese men found guilty of murder fueled a passionate debate about the death penalty in the decade before World War I. The trials and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti focused unwanted international and national attention on Massachusetts. This was a turning point. Sara Ehrmann took charge of the newly formed Massachusetts Council Against the Death Penalty, relentlessly lobbied the legislature, and convinced a string of governors not to sign death warrants. In the 1970s the focus shifted to the courts, and eventually, in 1980, the Supreme Judicial Court abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it violated the Massachusetts Constitution., 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, cruelty, efficacy, and constitutionality. In this authoritative book, Alan Rogers offers a comprehensive account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts. In the seventeenth century, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts General Court understood murder to be a sin and a threat to the colony's well-being, but the Puritans also drastically reduced the crimes for which death was the prescribed penalty and expanded a capital defendant's rights. Following the Revolution, Americans denounced the death penalty as "British and brutish" and the state's Supreme Judicial Court embraced its role as protector of the rights extended to all men by the Massachusetts Constitution. In the 1830s popular opposition nearly stopped the machinery of death and a vote in the Massachusetts House fell just short of abolishing capital punishment. A post?Civil War effort extending civil rights to all men also stimulated significant changes in criminal procedure. A "monster petition" begging the governor to spare the life of a murderer convicted on slight circumstantial evidence and the grim prospect of executing nine Chinese men found guilty of murder fueled a passionate debate about the death penalty in the decade before World War I. The trials and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti focused unwanted international and national attention on Massachusetts. This was a turning point. Sara Ehrmann took charge of the newly formed Massachusetts Council Against the Death Penalty, relentlessly lobbied the legislature, and convinced a string of governors not to sign death warrants. In the 1970s the focus shifted to the courts, and eventually, in 1980, the Supreme Judicial Court abolished the death penalty on the grounds that it violated the Massachusetts Constitution., 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 and the Supreme Judicial Court's commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts.
LC Classification Number
KFM2965.C2R64 2008
Copyright Date
2008
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