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Pain, death, and the law / edited by Austin Sarat.

Title
Pain, death, and the law / edited by Austin Sarat.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c 2001.

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Additional Authors
Sarat, Austin
Description
168 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Law, meaning, and violence
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Law, meaning, and violence.
Subject
  • Capital punishment > United States
  • Human body > Law and legislation > United States
  • Pain > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: on pain and death as facts of legal life / Austin Sarat -- The problem of pain in punishment: historical perspectives / Karl Shoemaker -- Killing me softly: capital punishment and the technologies for taking life / Austin Sarat -- What the law must not hear: on capital punishment and the voice of pain / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- The sacred name of pain: the role of victim impact evidence in death penalty sentencing decisions / Jennifer L. Culbert -- The problem of pain and the right to die / Shai J. Lavi.
ISBN
  • 0472097679 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 0472067672 (paper : acid-free paper)
LCCN
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OCLC
  • 45314671
  • SCSB-10114569
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library