The Death Penalty: An American History By Stuart Banner. Harvard University Press, 385 pages, $29.95 Warning: This book is not for the squeamish. With graphicaccounts of snapped necks and roasted flesh and rabidlike reactions to lethalinjections, Stuart Banner spares no detail in describing American methods ofexecution. Yet Banner’s timely book on the history of capital […]
Josh Kurtz
Josh Kurtz covers state government and politics for the MontgomeryCounty Gazette in Maryland.

