LEADER 03548nam 22005775 450 001 9910136124803321 005 20210727211039.0 010 $a0-226-06672-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226066721 035 $a(CKB)3710000000914964 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4519356 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001588078 035 $a(DE-B1597)523772 035 $a(OCoLC)961271887 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226066721 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000914964 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aExecuting Freedom $eThe Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States /$fDaniel LaChance 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (275 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-226-06669-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. When Bundy Buckles Up --$tChapter 1. "Inside Your Daddy's House": Capital Punishment and Creeping Nihilism in the Atomic Age --$tChapter 2. "The Respect Which Is Due Them as Men": The Rise of Retribution in a Polarizing Nation --$tChapter 3. Fixed Risks and Free Souls: Judging and Executing Capital Defendants after Gregg v. Georgia --$tChapter 4. Shock Therapy: The Rehabilitation of Capital Punishment --$tChapter 5. "A Country Worthy of Heroes": The Old West and the New American Death Penalty --$tChapter 6. Father Knows Best: Capital Punishment as a Family Value --$tEpilogue. Disabling Freedom --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it should have the power to put its citizens to death? That question is at the heart of Executing Freedom, a powerful, wide-ranging examination of the place of the death penalty in American culture and how it has changed over the years. Drawing on an array of sources, including congressional hearings and campaign speeches, true crime classics like In Cold Blood, and films like Dead Man Walking, Daniel LaChance shows how attitudes toward the death penalty have reflected broader shifts in Americans' thinking about the relationship between the individual and the state. Emerging from the height of 1970s disillusion, the simplicity and moral power of the death penalty became a potent symbol for many Americans of what government could do-and LaChance argues, fascinatingly, that it's the very failure of capital punishment to live up to that mythology that could prove its eventual undoing in the United States. 606 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States 610 $aAmerican political culture. 610 $acapital punishment. 610 $adeath penalty. 610 $adistrust of government. 610 $aexecutions. 610 $afreedom. 610 $alibertarianism. 610 $arehabilitation. 610 $aretribution. 610 $avigilantism. 615 0$aCapital punishment 676 $a364.660973 700 $aLaChance$b Daniel$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0946819 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136124803321 996 $aExecuting Freedom$92139099 997 $aUNINA