Deterrence and the Death Penalty [1 ed.] 9780309254175, 9780309254168

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on

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Deterrence and the Death Penalty [1 ed.]
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In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambiti

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This book offers a broad overview of public attitudes to the death penalty in India. It examines in detail the progress

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This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex kille

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Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued b

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Essays offer a new challenge to the death penalty's legitimacy, in light of new empirical research and case studies

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Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ‘being-towards-de

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Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to t

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