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The Killing State : Capital Punishment in Law, Politics and Culture.
Brings together the work of writers to discuss the meaning of execution in American law and culture. This book provides historical background on the death penalty and brings together arguments about the morality of capital punishment with arguments about its meaning. It also considers whether death...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Capital Punishment as a Fact of Legal, Political, and Cultural Life: An Introduction; I. THE POLITICS OF STATE KILLING; 1. After the Terror: Mortality, Equality, Fraternity; 2. Abolishing the Death Penalty Even for the Worst Murderers; 3. A Juridical Frankenstein, Or Death in the Hands of the State; 4. Tokens of Our Esteem: Aggravating Factors in the Era of Deregulated Death Penalties; II. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND LEGAL VALUES; 5. "Always More to Do": Capital Punishment and the (De)Composition of Law.