From Noose to Needle : Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Law, Meaning, and Violence)

from noose to needle : capital punishment and the late liberal state (law, meaning, and violence)

From Noose to Needle : Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Law, Meaning, and Violence)

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From Noose to Needle contributes a new perspective on the controversial topic of capital punishment by asking how the conduct of state killing reveals broader contradictions in the contemporary liberal state, especially, but not exclusively, in the United States. Moving beyond more familiar legal and sociological approaches to this matter, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn asks several questions. Why do executions no longer take the form of public spectacles? Why are certain methods of execution considered barbaric? Why must the liberal state strictly segregate the imposition of a death sentence, whether by judge or jury, from its actual infliction, whether by a state official or an ordinary citizen? Why are women so infrequently sentenced to death and executed? How does the state seek to hide the suffering inflicted by capital punishment through its endorsement of a bio-medical conception of pain? How does the nearly-universal shift to lethal injection pose problems for the late liberal state by confusing its punitive and welfare responsibilities?

From Noose to Needle : Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Law, Meaning, and Violence),Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn,University of Michigan Press,0472088904,Capital punishment,Criminal Law - General,General,Hanging,Law,Lethal injection (Execution),Penology,Political aspects,Sociology,United States,Political Science / General

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