The Death of the American Death Penalty : States Still Leading the Way [1 ed.] 9781555537821, 9781555537807

The Death Penalty: An American History 9780674020511

Here, for the first time, we have a comprehensive account of the death penalty in the United States. Stuart Banner tells

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The death penalty: an American history 9780674010833, 9780674007512, 9780674020511

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The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature 9781350339484, 9781350339514, 9781350339491

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ‘being-towards-de

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The Death Penalty: Issues and Answers

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Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty 9780823282326

How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida’s seminar The

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Killing Times: The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty 9780823283514

Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued b

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The Puritan Way of Death 9780195022261

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Most Deserving of Death?: An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence 0754678857, 9780754678854

The role of capital punishment in America has been criticised by those for and against the death penalty, by the judicia

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The Death of the American Trial 9780226081281

In The Death of the American Trial, distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing

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American Roulette: The Social Logic of Death Penalty Sentencing Trials 9780520975507

As the death penalty clings to life in many states and dies off in others, this first-of-its-kind ethnography takes read

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