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Death Defying: Dismantling the Execution Machinery in 21st Century U.S.A. - Couverture souple

McAllister, Pam

 
9780826414632: Death Defying: Dismantling the Execution Machinery in 21st Century U.S.A.
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 082641463X ISBN 13 : 9780826414632
Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2003

Synopsis

Capital punishment, renounced as archaic by almost all modern countries, is an increasingly hot topic in America. As a parade of wrongly convicted inmates are freed from death row we wonder, can capital punishment be an effective tool of justice or is it merely institutionalized vengeance - barbaric and obsolete? Not the usual dry, pro-and-con presentation of the death penalty debate, "Death Defying" takes a different look at capital punishment. Author-activist Pam McAllister grapples with the complex underlying issues of violence and victimization, the natural desire for revenge in an age of terrorism, and the hope for healing. McAllister utilizes an eclectic array of images, lessons, and metaphors - with sources ranging from the fine arts to pop culture, opera to folk songs, "Hamlet" to "Harry Potter". McAllister's takes an offbeat and often surprising historical overview of capital punishment, taking readers from the days when disrespecting one's parents, pick-pocketing and even laziness were capital offences, through the Middle Ages when animals (a rooster charged with the crime of egg-laying!) and inanimate objects could be put on trial and sentenced to death, to today's clinical death by lethal injection in death chambers that look like public toilets. This book should galvanize readers - from concerned couch potatoes to seasoned activists - with ideas of how the machinery of death can be dismantled and the cycle of violence and revenge broken.

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À propos de l'auteur

PAM McALLISTER, A long-time resident of New York City, she has been a featured speaker about non-violent responses to social justice issues at a range of venues, including at universities (Brown, Johns Hopkins, Princeton) and at religious and women's conferences across North America.

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Éditeur
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
082641463X
ISBN 13 
9780826414632
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
WordUnited GmbH
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