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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Capital punishment > United States.
Capital punishment > Social aspects.
Peine de mort > États-Unis.
Peine de mort > Aspect social.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Capital punishment.
Todesstrafe
United States.
USA.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Starting to Think about Finality in Capital Cases / Austin Sarat
  • 1 Finality and the Capital/Non-Capital Punishment Divide / Carissa Byrne Hessick
  • 2 Following Finality: Why Capital Punishment Is Collapsing under Its Own Weight / Corinna Barrett Lain
  • 3 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
  • 4 Grand Finality: Post-Conviction Prosecutors and Capital Punishment / Daniel S. Medwed
  • 5 Existential Finality: Dark Empathy, Retribution, and the Decline of Capital Punishment in the United States / Daniel LaChance
  • Afterword: Death and the State / Jenny Caroll.

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