The Killing State —— Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture

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ISBN: 9780195146028 出版年：2001 页码：276 Oxford University Press

Collecting work by several notable scholars, this book explains why the US still clings to capital punishment long after other democratic nations have abandoned it. It also exhibits a new way of thinking about state killing that goes beyond abstract moral argument and narrow policy debate to assess its impact on our legal system, its powerful symbolic appeal, and its place in today's "culture wars."