William Pardon

United States Statutes at Large

• Author(s): United States

• Categories: Law

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1949
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Collections of the Rhode-Island Historical Society

• Categories: Local history

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1843
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• Publisher: Unknown

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A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America

• Author(s): Charles Elihu Slocum

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1882
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of William and Mary: 1700-1702

• Author(s): Great Britain. Public Record Office

• Categories: Great Britain

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1895
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Literary Executions

• Author(s): John Cyril Barton

• Categories: Law

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-07-15
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• Publisher: JHU Press

"In Literary Executions, John Barton analyzes nineteenth-century representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States. The author creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction engage with legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which participated in the debate over capital punishment. Barton focuses on several canonical figures--James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman,...