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Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
1. Machinery of Death or Machinic Life 17
2. The Time of the Trap Door 54
3. The Future Anterior of Blood 87
4. Spirit Wind 119
5. Drone Penalty 150
6. Lam Time 185
Appendix: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Cited 217
Acknowledgments 219
Notes 221
Index 253

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    Publisher: Fordham University Press
    Publication Date: 05/03/2019
    ISBN13: 9780823283491, 978-0823283491
    ISBN10: 0823283496
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    Ethical issues: capital punishment Penology and punishment

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills’s engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction 1
    1. Machinery of Death or Machinic Life 17
    2. The Time of the Trap Door 54
    3. The Future Anterior of Blood 87
    4. Spirit Wind 119
    5. Drone Penalty 150
    6. Lam Time 185
    Appendix: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Cited 217
    Acknowledgments 219
    Notes 221
    Index 253

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