Research Catalog

Title

• The killing state : capital punishment in law, politics, and culture / edited by Austin Sarat.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sarat, Austin

Description

xi, 263 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy." "Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time."--Jacket.

Subject

• Capital punishment > United States > Congresses
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "This book emerged out of a conference entitled "Capital punishment in law and culture" held at Amherst College in April, 1997"--P. viii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Capital punishment as a fact of legal, political, and cultural life : an introduction / Austin Sarat -- After the terror : mortality, equality, fraternity / Anne Norton -- Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers / Hugo Adam Bedau -- A juridical Frankenstein, or death in the hands of the state / Julie M. Taylor -- Tokens of our esteem : aggravating factors in the era of deregulated death penalties / Jonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding -- "Always more to do" : capital punishment and the (de)composition of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- The executioner's dissonant song : on capital punishment and American legal values / Franklin E. Zimring -- Selling a quick fix for Boot Hill : the myth of justice delayed in death cases / Anthony G. Amsterdam -- The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly -- Beyond intention : a critique of the "normal" criminal agency, responsibility, and punishment in American death penalty jurisprudence / Jennifer L. Culbert -- The cultural life of capital punishment : responsibility and representation in Dead man Walking and Last dance / Austin Sarat.

ISBN

0195120868 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97053268^

OCLC

38147885

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library