Final Judgments: The Death Penalty in American Law and Culture
Author:   Austin Sarat (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   191
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Austin Sarat (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9781316609019


ISBN 10:   1316609014
Pages:   191
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Carroll.

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Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and Justice Hugo L. Black Senior Faculty Scholar at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including the recent A World without Privacy (2014), Civility, Legality, and Justice in America (2014), and Reimagining to Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under the Law (2013). His book When Government Breaks the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Huffington Post.

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