Introduction: Interpreting the violent state / Austin Sarat and Jennifer L. Culbert
On the forms of state killing
The innocuousness of state lethality in an age of national security / Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Oedipal sovereignty and the war in Iraq / Jeremy Arnold
Sacrifice and sovereignty / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
Due process and lethal confinement / Colin Dayan
From time to torture : the hellish future of the criminal sentence / Thomas L. Dumm
The child in the broom closet : states of killing and letting die / Elizabeth A. Povinelli
The lethality of the Canadian state's (re)cognition of indigenous peoples / Mark Antaki and Coel Kirkby
Investigating the discourses of death
Death in the first person / Peter Brooks
Open secrets, or the postscript of capital punishment / Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman
Ethical exception : capital punishment in the figure of sovereignty / Adam Thurschwell
No mercy / Adam Sitze.
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States of violence : war, capital punishment, and letting die. ISBN 9780521699761. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
