The Killing State
Subtitle: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 28, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780195146028
First sentence: Today Americans live in a killing state in which violence is met with violence, and the measure of our sovereignty as a people is found in our ability both to make laws carrying the penalty of death and to translate those laws into a calm, bureaucratic bloodletting.