Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987 by Richard J. Evans

Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987

Richard J. Evans

1048 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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The state has no greater power over its own citizens than that of killing them. This book examines the use of that supreme sanction in Germany, from the seventeenth century to the present. Richard Evans analyses the system of traditional' capita...

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