Title: The killing state
Description: "The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy.".

"Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE, Congresses, Capital punishment, Criminology, Criminal justice, administration of, Law, philosophy, Sociological jurisprudence, Peine de mort, Congrès