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Executing freedom : the cultural life of capital punishment in the United States / Daniel LaChance.
LIBRA HV8699.U5 L33 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaChance, Daniel, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- When Bundy buckles up
- From rehabilitation to retribution
- "Inside your daddy's house": capital punishment and creeping nihilism in the atomic age
- "The respect which is due them as men": the rise of retribution in a polarizing nation
- Executable subjects
- Fixed risks and free souls: judging and executing capital defendants after Gregg v. Georgia
- Shock therapy: the rehabilitation of capital punishment
- The killing state
- "A country worthy of heroes": the old West and the new
- American death penalty
- Father knows best: capital punishment as a family value
- Epilogue: disabling freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226066691
- 022606669X
- OCLC:
- 934939001
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