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- catalog abstract ""The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy." "Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10902888.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture explores what it means when the state kills and what it means for citizens to live in a killing state, helping us understand why America clings tenaciously to a punishment that has been abandoned by every other industrialized democracy." "Edited by a leading figure in socio-legal studies, this book brings together the work of ten scholars, including recognized experts on the death penalty and noted scholars writing about it for the first time."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Capital punishment as a fact of legal, political, and cultural life : an introduction / Austin Sarat -- After the terror : mortality, equality, fraternity / Anne Norton -- Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers / Hugo Adam Bedau -- A juridical Frankenstein, or death in the hands of the state / Julie M. Taylor -- Tokens of our esteem : aggravating factors in the era of deregulated death penalties / Jonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding -- "Always more to do" : capital punishment and the (de)composition of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- The executioner's dissonant song : on capital punishment and American legal values / Franklin E. Zimring -- Selling a quick fix for Boot Hill : the myth of justice delayed in death cases / Anthony G. Amsterdam -- The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly -- Beyond intention : a critique of the "normal" criminal agency, responsibility, and punishment in American death penalty jurisprudence / Jennifer L. Culbert -- The cultural life of capital punishment : responsibility and representation in Dead man Walking and Last dance / Austin Sarat.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 263 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195120868 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "364.66/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Capital punishment United States Congresses.".
- catalog subject "KF9227.C2 K56 1998".
- catalog subject "KF9227.C2 K56 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Capital punishment as a fact of legal, political, and cultural life : an introduction / Austin Sarat -- After the terror : mortality, equality, fraternity / Anne Norton -- Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers / Hugo Adam Bedau -- A juridical Frankenstein, or death in the hands of the state / Julie M. Taylor -- Tokens of our esteem : aggravating factors in the era of deregulated death penalties / Jonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding -- "Always more to do" : capital punishment and the (de)composition of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- The executioner's dissonant song : on capital punishment and American legal values / Franklin E. Zimring -- Selling a quick fix for Boot Hill : the myth of justice delayed in death cases / Anthony G. Amsterdam -- The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly -- Beyond intention : a critique of the "normal" criminal agency, responsibility, and punishment in American death penalty jurisprudence / Jennifer L. Culbert -- The cultural life of capital punishment : responsibility and representation in Dead man Walking and Last dance / Austin Sarat.".
- catalog title "The killing state : capital punishment in law, politics, and culture / edited by Austin Sarat.".
- catalog type "Conference proceedings. fast".
- catalog type "text".