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Michael Foucault, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, talked about the disappearance of punishment as a public spectacle in Chap. 1 of his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975).
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Sahni, S.P., Junnarkar, M. (2020). Public Opinion on Death Penalty. In: The Death Penalty. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3129-3_4
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