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From noose to needle : capital punishment and the late liberal state / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V. (Timothy Vance), 1953-
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence.
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Capital punishment--Political aspects.
- Hanging--United States.
- Hanging.
- Lethal injection (Execution)--United States.
- Lethal injection (Execution).
- Liberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-42313-4
- 9786612423130
- 0-472-02290-3
- OCLC:
- 743199440
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