The killing state : capital punishment in law, politics, and culture / edited by Austin Sarat.
1999
KF9227.C2 K56 1998 (Map It)
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Title
The killing state : capital punishment in law, politics, and culture / edited by Austin Sarat.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Call Number
KF9227.C2 K56 1998
ISBN
0195120868 (acid-free paper)
Description
xi, 263 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)38147885
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Contributors
Capital Punishment as a Fact of Legal, Political, and Cultural Life: An Introduction / Austin Sarat
3
I
The Politics of State Killing
1After the Terror: Mortality, Equality, Fraternity / Anne Norton
27
2Abolishing the Death Penalty Even for the Worst Murderers / Hugo Adam Bedau
40
3A Juridical Frankenstein, Or Death in the Hands of the State / Julie M. Taylor
60
4Tokens of Our Esteem: Aggravating Factors in the Era of Deregulated Death Penalties / Jonathan Simon Christina Spaulding
81
II
Capital Punishment and Legal Values
5"Always More to Do": Capital Punishment and the (De)Composition of Law / Peter Fitzpatrick
117
6The Executioner's Dissonant Song: On Capital Punishment and American Legal Values / Franklin E. Zimring
137
7Selling a Quick Fix for Boot Hill: The Myth of Justice Delayed in Death Cases / Anthony G. Amsterdam
148
III
The Death Penalty and the Culture of Responsibility
8The Will, Capital Punishment, and Cultural War / William E. Connolly
187
9Beyond Intention: A Critique of the "Normal" Criminal Agency, Responsibility, and Punishment in American Death Penalty Jurisprudence / Jennifer L. Culbert
206
10The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment: Responsibility and Representation in Dead Man Walking and Last Dance / Austin Sarat
226
Index
257