LaChance Lecture

LECTURE: DANIEL LACHANCE


Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States

Dr. Daniel LaChance

Friday, March 10

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Room P145

School of Public Affairs

San Diego State University

Dr. Daniel LaChance will discuss his recently published book, Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States (University of Chicago Press). The book examines the decline of the American death penalty in the years following World War II, its revival in the 1970s, and its subsequent use over the past thirty years. In this talk, he will discuss how shifting ideas about the nature of freedom reshaped the dominant meaning of capital punishment in America.

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