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Language: en
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Pages: 219
Pages: 219
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-10 - Publisher: Little, Brown
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Language: en
Pages: 1056
Pages: 1056
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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 sevente