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When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, June, 2001 by LAMARCHE, GARA
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When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition, by Austin Sarat. Princeton University Press, 324 pages, $29.95.
As I write, the United States is preparing to execute Timothy McVeigh On May 16. If the death penalty is to exist at all, it's hard to imagine a more compelling candidate--a terrorist and mass murderer, apparently sane and unremorseful. Yet, remarkably, there are stirrings of debate about McVeigh's execution, led by the doubts expressed by some of the families of his Oklahoma City victims. When the hardest of hard cases gives so many people ...
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