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Pain, death, and the law /

How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c 2001.
Colección:Law, meaning, and violence.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.