Who Deserves to Die? : Constructing the Executable Subject /

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Death penalty scholars "assess the forms of legal subjectivity and legal community that are supported and constructed by the doctrines and practices of punishment by death in the United States. They help us understand what we do and who we become wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shoemaker, Karl, Sarat, Austin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Discrimination in capital punishment > United States.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What kind of self is the executable subject?
  • The medieval origins of the Supreme Court's prohibition on executing the insane / Karl Shoemaker
  • The unlucky psychopath as death penalty prototype / Robert Weisberg
  • Waiving from death row / Susan R. Schmeiser
  • No remorse / Ravit Reichman
  • Constructing the executable subject: sacrifice and the rituals of State killing
  • The unsacrificeable subject? / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
  • Last words: structuring the State's power to punish / Vanessa Barker
  • The meaning of death: last words, last meals / Linda Ross Meyer
  • New perspectives on selfhood and the purposes of capital punishment
  • Executing retributivism: Panetti and the future of the eighth amendment / Dan Markel
  • Therapeutic death / Ruth A. Miller
  • The dead, the human animal, the executable subject / Thomas L. Dumm.

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