Killing Times

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wills, David, 1953– author.

Title: Killing times : the temporal technology of the death penalty / David Wills.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018059019 | ISBN 9780823283521 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780823283491 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Executions and executioners—United States. | Capital punishment—United States.

Classification: LCC HV8699.U5 W53 2019 | DDC 364.66028/4—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018059019

Printed in the United States of America

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