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Austin Sarat. Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Stanford Law Books, 2016).

 

Rita Y. Shuler.  Carolina Crimes: Case Files of a Forensic Photographer (The History Press, 2006).

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Eliza Steelwater. The Hangman’s Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and America’s Struggle with the Death Penalty (Basic Books, 2003).

 

Scott Sundby. A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007).

 

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