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UNINA9910824346803321 |
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Sarat Austin |
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Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others] |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Executions and executioners - United States - History |
Capital punishment - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Contents; CHAPTER 1- The Mere Extinguishment of Life? Technological Efficiency, Botched Executions, and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment in the United States; CHAPTER 2- A Clumsy, Inefficient, Inhuman Thing Death by Hanging; CHAPTER 3- When Science Fails Electrocution; CHAPTER 4- A Short and Unhappy History The Gas Chamber; CHAPTER 5- "How Enviable a Quiet Death" Lethal Injection; CHAPTER 6- Botched Executions and the Struggle to End Capital Punishment; Appendix A; Appendix B; Acknowledgments; A Note on Collaboration; Notes; Index |
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""How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection,"" wrote Justice Scalia, in a concurring opinion that denied review of a Texas death penalty case. But is it quiet? Renewed and vigorous debate over the death penalty has erupted as DNA testing has proven that many on death row are in fact innocent. In this debate, however, the guilty have been forgotten. In his new book, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty, renowned legal scholar Austin Sarat describes just how unquiet death by execution can be. If we assume a death row prisoner is guilty, how can we |
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UNINA9910958553603321 |
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Autore |
Goncourt Edmond de <1822-1896.> |
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[Temptis] Utamaro / / Edmond de Goncourt ; [translated from the French by Michael & Lenita Locey] |
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New York : , : Parkstone International, , [2012] |
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9781283953955 |
1283953951 |
9781780429281 |
1780429282 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; FOREWORD; I. THE ART OF UTAMARO; II. THE PICTORIAL WORKS; 1. Prints (Nishiki-e); 2. Albums (series of prints in colour); 3. Kakemonos; 4. Surimonos; 5. E-makimonos; III. The Books; 1. Little Yellow Books (Kibyoshi); 2. Small books (Mangas); 3. Erotic Books (Shungas); 4. Books in Colour; Bibliography; Glossary; List OF illustrations |
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If sensuality had a name, it would be without a doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by the richness of his fabrics, the long necks of swans, the mysterious looks, evoke in a few lines the sensual pleasure of the Orient.If some scenes betray discreetly lovers' games, a great number of his shungas recall that love in Japan is first and foremost erotic. |
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