| Contents |
Capital punishment as a fact of legal, political, and cultural life: an introduction / Austin Sarat -- After the terror: mortality, equality, fraternity / Anne Norton -- Abolishing the death penalty even for the worst murderers / Hugo Adam Bedau -- A juridical Frankenstein, or death in the hands of the state / Julie M. Taylor -- Tokens of our esteem: aggravating factors in the era of deregulated death penalties / Jonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding -- "Always more to do": capital punishment and the (de)composition of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- The executioner's dissonant song: on capital punishment and American legal values / Franklin E. Zimring -- Selling a quick fix for Boot Hill: the myth of justice delayed in death cases / Anthony G. Amsterdam -- The will, capital punishment, and cultural war / William E. Connolly -- Beyond intention: a critique of the "normal" criminal agency, responsibility, and punishment in American death penalty jurisprudence / Jennifer L. Culbert -- The cultural life of capital punishment: responsibility and representation in Dead man Walking and Last dance / Austin Sarat. |
