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Executing Freedom by Daniel Lachance Book Summary
“Breaks new ground . . . shows compellingly and convincingly that punishment provides a major gateway to exploring a society and culture.”—Journal of American History
In 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.
“Fiercely provocative . . . A must-read for socio-legal studies and punishment scholars who want to know more about how the phenomenon of capital punishment took on a life of its own in the modern US cultural imagination.”—Theoretical Criminology
Book Name | Executing Freedom |
Genre | Social Science |
Author | Daniel Lachance |
Published | 18 November 2016, Friday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 2.17 MB |
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The Executing Freedom book written by Daniel Lachance was published on 18 November 2016, Friday in the Social Science category. A total of 4 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
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