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Executing freedom : the cultural life of capital punishment in the United States / Daniel LaChance.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226066721
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV8699 .E943 2016
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Contents:
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.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HV8699.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn961271887

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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