Executing Freedom

Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans’ thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do—and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it’s the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States.

שנה

2016

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

272

ISBN

9780226066691

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata