From noose to needle : capital punishment and the late liberal state /
Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
©2002.
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| Series: | Law, meaning, and violence.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.16938 |
Table of Contents:
- What is a death sentence?
- John Locke's noose
- The metaphysics of the hangman
- Silencing the voice of pain
- Womanhood unsexed on the gallows
- Needling the sovereign.