Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Contributors xi
5. 1. Putting Culture into the Picture: Toward a Comparative Analysis of State Killings 1
6. Part I. Civilization and Punishment: Self and Other in Europe and the Americas
7. 2. Nineteenth-Century Executions as Performances of Law, Death, and Civilization 49
8. 3. Seed of Abolition: Experience and Culture in the Desire to End Capital Punishment in Mexico, 1841–1857 69
9. 4. The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment in the United States 92
10. 5. European Identity and the Mission Against the Death Penalty in the United States 112
11. 6. Crime and Punishment / Self versus Other: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in European and American Film 129
12. 7. Capital Punishment in Poland: An Aspect of the “Cultural Life” of Death Penalty Discourse 147
13. Part II: State Killing and State Violence in Central and South Asia and the Middle East
14. 8. Capital Punishment in Kyrgyzstan: Between the Past, “Other” State Killings and Social Demands 171
15. 9. Death and the Nation: State Killing in India 195
16. 10. Imagining the Death Penalty in Israel: Punishment,Violence, Vengeance, and Revenge 219
17. 11. The Palestinian Culture of Death: Shariah and Siyasah— Justice, Political Power, and Capital Punishment in the Palestinian National Authority 231
18. Part III: Paternal States, “Asian Values,” and Visions of Social Order: Capital Punishment in East and Southeast Asia
19. 12. The Death Penalty in Japan: Secrecy, Silence, and Salience 251
20. 13. What Is Wrong with Capital Punishment? Official and Unofficial Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment in Modern and Contemporary China 274
21. 14. Capital Punishment and the Culture of Developmentalism in Singapore 291
22. 15. Ending State Killing in South Korea: Challenging the Asian Capital Punishment Status Quo 308
23. Index 329