The death penalty has largely disappeared as a national legislative issue and the Supreme Court has mainly bowed out, le
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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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In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambiti
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In The Death of the American Trial, distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing
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