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Pain, death, and the law / edited by Austin Sarat.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence.
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Law and legislation--United States.
- Human body.
- Capital punishment--United States.
- Capital punishment.
- Pain--Social aspects.
- Pain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts
- Contents:
- 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; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-42282-0
- 9786612422829
- 0-472-02285-7
- OCLC:
- 824099860
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