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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital punishment--United States--Congresses.

Capital punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Collecting work by several notable scholars, this book explains why the US still clings to capital punishment long after other democratic nations have abandoned it. It also exhibits a new way of thinking about state killing that goes beyond abstract moral argument and narrow policy debate to assess its impact on our legal system, its powerful symbolic appeal, and its place in today's ""culture wars.""

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Capital Punishment as a Fact of Legal, Political, and Cultural Life: An Introduction; I. THE POLITICS OF STATE KILLING; 1. After the Terror: Mortality, Equality, Fraternity; 2. Abolishing the Death Penalty Even for the Worst Murderers; 3. A Juridical Frankenstein, Or Death in the Hands of the State; 4. Tokens of Our Esteem: Aggravating Factors in the Era of Deregulated Death Penalties; II. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND LEGAL VALUES; 5. ""Always More to Do"": Capital Punishment and the (De)Composition of Law

6. The Executioner's Dissonant Song: On Capital Punishment and American Legal Values7. Selling a Quick Fix for Boot Hill: The Myth of Justice Delayed in Death Cases; III. THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE CULTURE OF RESPONSIBILITY; 8. The Will, Capital Punishment, and Cultural War; 9. Beyond Intention: A Critique of the ""Normal"" Criminal Agency, Responsibility, and Punishment in American Death Penalty Jurisprudence; 10. The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment: Responsibility and Representation in Dead Man Walking and Last Dance; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771971-6

0-585-21168-X

9786610531936

1-280-53193-2

0-19-802827-X

1-4237-6321-1

0-19-534918-0

1-60256-742-5

OCLC:

476022744