From Noose to Needle
Subtitle: Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: November 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780472088904
Subjects: Capital punishment; Penology; Hanging; Sociology; Law; United States; Political aspects; General; Political Science / General; Criminal Law - General; Lethal injection (Execution)
Description: The author uses 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.