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Larger libraries serving patrons interested in capital punishment and other legal issues will want to consider this collection of critiques of "the killing state": essays that focus on capital punishment's effect on democracy, the legal system, and U.S. culture. Editor Sarat, an Amherst College professor of jurisprudence and political science, is president of the Law and Society Association; most other contributors are professors of law, philosophy, political science, or anthropology, from nearly a dozen respected universities. Essays on democracy and the death penalty place the ultimate punishment in historical and international perspective. Those on capital punishment's impact on legal values stress the conflict between the law's theoretical openness to additional evidence and execution's irreversibility. The book's last section sees capital punishment as a symbol in our current cultural wars "over the integrity and stability of ideas of free will and responsibility," and then considers the unarticulated assumptions about the death penalty and the crimes it punishes, in films such as Dead Man Walking and Last Dance. Mary Carroll --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment.... [It] will keep us thinking well into the next century."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books
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Larger libraries serving patrons interested in capital punishment and other legal issues will want to consider this collection of critiques of "the killing state": essays that focus on capital punishment's effect on democracy, the legal system, and U.S. culture. Editor Sarat, an Amherst College professor of jurisprudence and political science, is president of the Law and Society Association; most other contributors are professors of law, philosophy, political science, or anthropology, from nearly a dozen respected universities. Essays on democracy and the death penalty place the ultimate punishment in historical and international perspective. Those on capital punishment's impact on legal values stress the conflict between the law's theoretical openness to additional evidence and execution's irreversibility. The book's last section sees capital punishment as a symbol in our current cultural wars "over the integrity and stability of ideas of free will and responsibility," and then considers the unarticulated assumptions about the death penalty and the crimes it punishes, in films such as Dead Man Walking and Last Dance. Mary Carroll --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment.... [It] will keep us thinking well into the next century."--Bimonthly Review of Law Books
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 78 books | 12 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: bilateral individualism, death penalh, death penalty films, deregulating death, police edict (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Last Dance, Sister Helen, Austin Sarat, Buenos Aires, New York (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | < |