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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wills, David, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethik
Todesstrafe
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Mortalite > Philosophie.
Peine de mort > Aspect moral.
Mortality > Philosophy.
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780823283514

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