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Execution Ritual : Media Representations Of Execution And The Social Construction Of Public Opinion Regarding The Death Penalty., Emilie Dyer 1987-
Execution Ritual : Media Representations Of Execution And The Social Construction Of Public Opinion Regarding The Death Penalty., Emilie Dyer 1987-
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The public's exposure to state sanctioned killings is limited to the mass media representations such as editorials, news reports, feature films, and books. Therefore it is important to examine the process of execution and its relation to the media forms that construct a social reality of execution for the public. The messages of the mass media and the images they portray are a crucial element of capital punishment because they represent a social construction of reality that may guide the beliefs and opinions of the public (Heath & Gilbert 1996). Using Ethnographic Content Analysis (Althiede 1987), this study uses the …