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Author Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V. (Timothy Vance), 1953-

Title From noose to needle : capital punishment and the late liberal state / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource
Series Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence.
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
Summary Discusses the dilemmas of the relationship between the liberal state and capital punishment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Capital punishment -- United States
Capital punishment -- Political aspects
Hanging -- United States
Lethal injection (Execution) -- United States
Liberalism.
Free enterprise.
liberalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
HISTORY -- General.
Free enterprise
Capital punishment
Capital punishment -- Political aspects
Hanging
Lethal injection (Execution)
Liberalism
Todesstrafe
Geschichte
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020706909
ISBN 9780472022908
0472022903
1282423134
9781282423138
9786612423130
6612423137
9780472088904
0472088904