Delivering death: Capital punishment, botched executions and the American news media

Captured by the Media: Prison Discourse in Popular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 84-102

  Greer, Chris ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843925767     Document Type: Chapter

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