Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Between the Promise of a Shared Moral World and the UtterUnintelligibility of Death Itself: An Introduction to the Constructionof Executable Subjects Austin Sarat and Karl Shoemaker -- Part One: What Kind of Self Is the Executable Subject? -- Chapter 1: The Medieval Origins of the Supreme Court's Prohibition on Executing the Insane -- Chapter 2: The Unlucky Psychopath as Death Penalty Prototype -- Chapter 3: Waiving from Death Row -- Chapter 4: No Remorse -- Part Two: Constructing the Executable Subject: Sacrifice and the Rituals of State Killing -- Chapter 5: The Unsacrificeable Subject? -- Chapter 6: Last Words: Structuring the State's Power to Punish -- Chapter 7: The Meaning of Death: Last Words, Last Meals -- Part Three: New Perspectives on Selfhood and the Purposes of Capital Punishment -- Chapter 8: Executing Retributivism: Panetti and the Future of the Eighth Amendment -- Chapter 9: Therapeutic Death -- Chapter 10: The Dead, the Human Animal, the Executable Subject -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.