Killing times : the temporal technology of the death penalty /

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Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills's engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wills, David, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Mortality > Philosophy.
Peine de mort > Aspect moral.
Mortalité > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Todesstrafe
Ethik
USA
8th amendment.
Technology.
death penalty.
drone.
guillotine.
mortality.
prosthesis.
suicide bomber.
temporality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills's engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823283514
0823283518
9780823283507
082328350X

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