Final judgments the death penalty in American law and culture
Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture explores the significance and meaning of finality in capital cases. Questions addressed in this book include: how are concerns about finality reflected in the motivations and behavior of participants in the death penalty system? How does...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : starting to think about finality in capital cases / Austin Sarat
- Finality and the capital/non-capital punishment divide / Carissa Byrne Hessick
- Following finality : why capital punishment is collapsing under its own weight / Corinna Barrett Lain
- The time it takes to die and the "death" of the death penalty : untimely meditations on the end of capital punishment in the United States
- Jennifer l. culbert
- Grand finality : post-conviction prosecutors and capital punishment / Daniel S. Medwed
- Existential finality: dark empathy, retribution, and the decline of capital punishment in the United States / Daniel LaChance
- Afterword : death and the state / Jenny Carroll