![]() | Executing Democracy: Volume One: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States -- History; Crime -- United States -- History; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Debates and debating -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; Uni; Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic. Stephen John Hartnett is Associate Professor [chair] of the Department of Communication, University of Colorado Denver. Hartnett has written numerous books; has spent nineteen years teaching in, writing about, and protesting at America's prisons; and is the editor of Captured Words/Free Thoughts, a magazine of art and poems by imprisoned writers. |
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