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Final judgments : death penalty in American law and culture / edited by Austin Sarat, Amherst College.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK, Cambridge, 2017.Description: 179 pISBN:
  • 9781107155480 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.0773 SAR.F
Contents:
Introduction : starting to think about finality in capital cases / Austin Sarat -- Finality and the capital/non-capital punishment divide / Carissa Byrne Hessick -- Following finality : why capital punishment is collapsing under its own weight / Corinna Barrett Lain -- 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 -- Grand finality : post-conviction prosecutors and capital punishment / Daniel S. Medwed -- 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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"This volume is the product of a symposium held at the University of Alabama, School of Law on April 8, 2016."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : starting to think about finality in capital cases / Austin Sarat -- Finality and the capital/non-capital punishment divide / Carissa Byrne Hessick -- Following finality : why capital punishment is collapsing under its own weight / Corinna Barrett Lain -- 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 -- Grand finality : post-conviction prosecutors and capital punishment / Daniel S. Medwed -- 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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