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From Noose to Needle : Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Law, Meaning, and Violence SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472022908
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Noose to NeedleDDC classification:
  • 364.66/0973
LOC classification:
  • HV8699
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Is a Death Sentence? -- 3. John Locke's Noose -- 4. The Metaphysics of the Hangman -- 5. Silencing the Voice of Pain -- 6. Womanhood Unsexed on the Gallows -- 7. Needling the Sovereign -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Is a Death Sentence? -- 3. John Locke's Noose -- 4. The Metaphysics of the Hangman -- 5. Silencing the Voice of Pain -- 6. Womanhood Unsexed on the Gallows -- 7. Needling the Sovereign -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment.

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