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constructing the executable subject

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Death penalty scholars "assess the forms of legal subjectivity and legal community that are supported and constructed by the doctrines and practices of punishment by death in the United States. They help us understand what we do and who we become when we decide who is fit for execution." -- Back cover.

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University of Massachusetts Press
Language
English
Pages
312

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Capital punishment, Discrimination in capital punishment
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United States
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Cover of: Who deserves to die
Who deserves to die: constructing the executable subject
2011, University of Massachusetts Press
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Table of Contents

What kind of self is the executable subject?
The medieval origins of the Supreme Court's prohibition on executing the insane / Karl Shoemaker
The unlucky psychopath as death penalty prototype / Robert Weisberg
Waiving from death row / Susan R. Schmeiser
No remorse / Ravit Reichman
Constructing the executable subject: sacrifice and the rituals of State killing
The unsacrificeable subject? / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
Last words: structuring the State's power to punish / Vanessa Barker
The meaning of death: last words, last meals / Linda Ross Meyer
New perspectives on selfhood and the purposes of capital punishment
Executing retributivism: Panetti and the future of the eighth amendment / Dan Markel
Therapeutic death / Ruth A. Miller
The dead, the human animal, the executable subject / Thomas L. Dumm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.Death penalty scholars "assess the forms of legal subjectivity and legal community that are supported and constructed by the doctrines and practices of punishment by death in the United States. They help us understand what we do and who we become when we decide who is fit for execution." -- Back cover.

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Amherst

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364.660973
Library of Congress
HV8699.U5 W49 2011, HV8699.U5W49 2011

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viii, 312 p. ;
Number of pages
312

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OL25004405M
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whodeservestodie0000unse
ISBN 10
1558498834, 1558498826
ISBN 13
9781558498839, 9781558498822
LCCN
2011006720
OCLC/WorldCat
696916070
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