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From Noose to Needle

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Author : Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472022903
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book From Noose to Needle written by Timothy Vance Kaufman-Osborn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Noose to Needle contributes a new perspective on the controversial topic of capital punishment by asking how the conduct of state killing reveals broader contradictions in the contemporary liberal state, especially, but not exclusively, in the United States. Moving beyond more familiar legal and sociological approaches to this matter, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn asks several questions. Why do executions no longer take the form of public spectacles? Why are certain methods of execution considered barbaric? Why must the liberal state strictly segregate the imposition of a death sentence, whether by judge or jury, from its actual infliction, whether by a state official or an ordinary citizen? Why are women so infrequently sentenced to death and executed? How does the state seek to hide the suffering inflicted by capital punishment through its endorsement of a bio-medical conception of pain? How does the nearly-universal shift to lethal injection pose problems for the late liberal state by confusing its punitive and welfare responsibilities? Drawing on a wide range of theoretical sources, including John Locke, Max Weber, Nicos Poulantzas, Friedrich Nietzsche, J. L. Austin, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, Elaine Scarry, and others, Kaufman-Osborn grounds his appropriation of these authors in analyses of specific recent executions, including that of Wesley Allan Dodd and Charles Campbell in Washington, Karla Faye Tucker in Texas, and Allen Lee Davis in Florida. From Noose to Needle will be of interest to students of law, political theory, and sociology as well as more general readers interested in the troublesome issue of capital punishment. Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn is Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership, Whitman College.

Gruesome Spectacles

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Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791724
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Gruesome Spectacles written by Austin Sarat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood in Arizona, have made headlines and renewed vigorous debate surrounding the death penalty in America. Austin Sarat's book instantly became an essential resource for citizens, scholars, and lawmakers interested in capital punishment—even the Supreme Court, which cited the book in its recent opinion, Glossip v. Gross. Now in paperback, the book includes a new preface outlining the latest twists and turns in the death penalty debate, including the recent galvanization of citizens and leaders alike as recent botched executions have unfolded in the press. Sarat argues that unlike in the past, today's botched executions seem less like inexplicable mishaps and more like the latest symptoms of a death penalty machinery in disarray. Gruesome Spectacles traces the historical evolution of methods of execution, from hanging or firing squad to electrocution to gas and lethal injection. Even though each of these technologies was developed to "perfect" state killing by decreasing the chance of a cruel death, an estimated three percent of all American executions went awry in one way or another. Sarat recounts the gripping and truly gruesome stories of some of these deaths—stories obscured by history and to some extent, the popular press.

Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution

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Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503634515
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution written by Austin Sarat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America's "most humane" execution method is anything but. From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to reconcile its use of capital punishment with the Constitution's prohibition of cruel punishment. Death penalty proponents argue both that it is justifiable as a response to particularly heinous crimes, and that it serves to deter others from committing them in the future. However, since the earliest executions, abolitionists have fought against this state-sanctioned killing, arguing, among other things, that the methods of execution have frequently been just as gruesome as the crimes meriting their use. Lethal injection was first introduced in order to quell such objections, but, as Austin Sarat shows in this brief history, its supporters' commitment to painless and humane death has never been certain. This book tells the story of lethal injection's earliest iterations in the United States, starting with New York state's rejection of that execution method almost a century and half ago. Sarat recounts lethal injection's return in the late 1970s, and offers novel and insightful scrutiny of the new drug protocols that went into effect between 2010 and 2020. Drawing on rare data, he makes the case that lethal injections during this time only became more unreliable, inefficient, and more frequently botched. Beyond his stirring narrative history, Sarat mounts a comprehensive condemnation of the state-level maneuvering in response to such mishaps, whereby death penalty states adopted secrecy statutes and adjusted their execution protocols to make it harder to identify and observe lethal injection's flaws. What was once touted as America's most humane execution method is now its most unreliable one. What was once a model of efficiency in the grim business of state killing is now marked by mayhem. The book concludes by critically examining the place of lethal injection, and the death penalty writ large, today.

Transnational Torture

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Author : Jinee Lokaneeta
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479816957
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Torture written by Jinee Lokaneeta and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Transnational Torture by Jinee Lokaneeta reviewed with Prachi Patankar" on the blog Kafila. Evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay beg the question: has the “war on terror” forced liberal democracies to rethink their policies and laws against torture? Transnational Torture focuses on the legal and political discourses on torture in India and the United States—two common-law based constitutional democracies—to theorize the relationship between law, violence, and state power in liberal democracies. Analyzing about one hundred landmark Supreme Court cases on torture in India and the United States, memos and popular imagery of torture, Jinee Lokaneeta compellingly demonstrates that even before recent debates on the use of torture in the war on terror, the laws of interrogation were much more ambivalent about the infliction of excess pain and suffering than most political and legal theorists have acknowledged. Rather than viewing the recent policies on interrogation as anomalous or exceptional, Lokaneeta effectively argues that efforts to accommodate excess violence—a constantly negotiated process—are long standing features of routine interrogations in both the United States and India, concluding that the infliction of excess violence is more central to democratic governance than is acknowledged in western jurisprudence.

English Patents of Inventions, Specifications

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Punishment in Popular Culture

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Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479833525
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Punishment in Popular Culture written by Austin Sarat and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.

Foucault and the Politics of Rights

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Author : Ben Golder
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804796513
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Foucault and the Politics of Rights written by Ben Golder and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.

The Road to Abolition?

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Author : Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814762182
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Abolition? written by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains scholarly essays on the possibility that capital punishment might be abolished in the United States in the twenty-first century, discussing the decline in the number of people being sentenced to death, and exploring the idea that life without parole will replace the death penalty in the United States.

Peculiar Institution

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Author : David Garland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674058488
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Peculiar Institution written by David Garland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states– a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America’s political institutions and cultural conflicts. America’s radical federalism and local democracy, as well as its legacy of violence and racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West. Whereas the elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide abolition from above despite public objections, American elites are unable– and unwilling– to end a punishment that has the support of local majorities and a storied place in popular culture. In the course of hundreds of decisions, federal courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that too often resembled a lynching, producing layers of legal process but also delays and reversals. Yet the Supreme Court insists that the issue is to be decided by local political actors and public opinion. So the death penalty continues to respond to popular will, enhancing the power of criminal justice professionals, providing drama for the media, and bringing pleasure to a public audience who consumes its chilling tales. Garland brings a new clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution– and a new challenge to supporters and opponents alike.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

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Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
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Is the Death Penalty Dying?

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Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139496522
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Is the Death Penalty Dying? written by Austin Sarat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Death Penalty Dying? provides a careful analysis of the historical and political conditions that shaped death penalty practice on both sides of the Atlantic from the end of World War II to the twenty-first century. This book examines and assesses what the United States can learn from the European experience with capital punishment, especially the trajectory of abolition in different European nations. As a comparative sociology and history of the present, the book seeks to illuminate the way death penalty systems and their dissolution work, by means of eleven chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of authors from the United States and Europe. This work will help readers see how close the United States is to ending capital punishment and some of the cultural and institutional barriers that stand in the way of abolition.

Color Atlas of Strabismus Surgery

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Author : Kenneth W. Wright
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387686258
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Color Atlas of Strabismus Surgery written by Kenneth W. Wright and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color Atlas of Strabismus Surgery: Strategies and Techniques provides concise, comprehensive descriptions of surgical procedures by one of the world's leading experts. Pediatric ophthalmologists, ophthalmology residents and fellows, as well as general ophthalmologists, will find this atlas to be essential to their work.

Tissue Approximation in Endoscopic Surgery

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Author : Alfred Cuschieri
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781899066032
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Tissue Approximation in Endoscopic Surgery written by Alfred Cuschieri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emphasis throughout the text is to provide clear and practical step-by-step guidance to the many knot and suturing techniques in the surgeon's armamentarium Each stage of the various knots and procedures described is illustrated by clear, three colour line drawings and accompanied by definitive text.

The Science and Art of Surgery. Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases, and Operations

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Author : John Eric Erichsen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385385881
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Science and Art of Surgery. Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases, and Operations written by John Eric Erichsen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

The Science and Art of Surgery

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Author : John Eric Erichsen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1204 pages
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Clinical Atlas of Procedures in Ophthalmic and Oculofacial Surgery

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Author : Daniel M Albert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199874832
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Clinical Atlas of Procedures in Ophthalmic and Oculofacial Surgery written by Daniel M Albert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Clinical Atlas of Procedures in Ophthalmic and Oculofacial Surgery provides an overview of a broad range of contemporary, well-established, and accepted ophthalmic surgical procedures with clear illustrations of surgical fundamentals that cover key intraoperative and postoperative points. This new edition of the Atlas includes streamlined, more uniform chapters, bookended by detailed and instructive tables of indications and complications. More than 2,500 detailed, professionally-rendered line drawings and full-color photographs supplement succinct information on surgical procedures. The high-quality illustrations and images are laid out in a fluid design to help the reader quickly pinpoint the fundamentals of each procedure. With innovations and techniques frequently evolving ophthalmic surgery, the second edition of Clinical Atlas of Procedures in Ophthalmic and Oculofacial Surgery provides the clear and comprehensive platform needed to navigate the fast-moving field of surgical ophthalmology, and will surely continue to prove useful to the trainee, the ophthalmologist, the teacher, and, most importantly, to the patients whom they ultimately serve.

American Agriculturist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
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