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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

Killing Times

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 5 March 2019
      ISBN-13 9780823283491
      978-0823283491
      ISBN-10 0823283496
      Also in:
      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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