Pain, Death, and the Law.
Title:
Pain, Death, and the Law.
Author:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN:
9780472022854
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (179 pages)
Series:
Law, Meaning, And Violence
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: On Pain and Death as Facts of Legal Life / Austin Sarat -- The Problem of Pain in Punishment: Historical Perspectives / Karl Shoemaker -- Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life / Austin Sarat -- What the Law Must Not Hear: On Capital Punishment and the Voice of Pain / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- The Sacred Name of Pain: The Role of Victim Impact Evidence in Death Penalty Sentencing Decisions / Jennifer L. Culbert -- The Problem of Pain and the Right to Die / Shai J. Lavi -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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