Dead Wrong: Violence, Vengeance, and the Victims of Capital Punishment

by Richard A. Stack and Rob Warden

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Attitudes toward the death penalty have changed dramatically throughout the course of history, evolving from times when public executions were occasions of solemn and pious ritual to excuses for raucous entertainment, and finally to the modern era of private, bureaucratized, mechanized, and sanitized executions that are out of sight and out of mind. Conforming thus to modern sensibilities, state-sanctioned killing is somehow more acceptable to...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0275992217

ISBN13:9780275992217

Release Date:September 2006

Publisher:Praeger

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"

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Civil Rights Civil Rights & Liberties Criminal Law Law Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Public Policy Social Science Social Sciences Specific Topics

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