The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killings / Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat
- Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization / Jèurgen Martschukat
- Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 / Patrick Timmons
- The cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States / Judith Randle
- European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States / Evi Girling
- Crime and punishment/self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film / Louise Tyler
- Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of death penalty discourse / Agata Fijalkowski
- Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan : between the past, "other" state killings and social demands / Botagoz Kassymbekova
- Death and the nation : state killing in India / Julia Eckert
- Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge / Shai J. Lavi
- The Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah
- justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority / Judith Mendelsohn Rood
- The death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience / David T. Johnson
- What is wrong with capital punishment? Official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China / Virgil K.Y. Ho
- Capital punishment and the culture of developmentalism in Singapore / Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz
- Ending state killing in South Korea : challenging the Asian capital punishment status quo / Sangmin Bae
- Index.