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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 This collection belongs in all libraries. --Choice This collection of essays brings us up to date on the vexatious problem of capital punishment....these essays...will keep us thinking well into the next century. --Bimonthly Review of Law Books The papers in this collection represent an important and wide-ranging cross-section of current debate about the death penalty. Coming from varied perspectives of moral and political philosophy, legal theory, cultural criticism and what might be called political anthropology, the approaches taken range from mainstream to Nietzschean to deconstructionist. Neither is the collection univocally against the death penalty. These essays would make fruitful reading for anyone interested in the death penalty, state violence or the role of punishment in our societies more generally. - - Contemporary Political Theory

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

<br> 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<p><br>

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<br>

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Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has written and edited many books and articles on the theory and practice of law, and was recently elected President of the Law and Society Association.

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