Dead certainty : the death penalty and the problem of judgment / Jennifer L. Culbert.
Series: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.Description: 235 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780804757454 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804757453 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 364.660973 22
- HV8699.U5 C86 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.
Judgment and metaphysics : American capital punishment jurisprudence and Friedrich Nietzsche's history of an error -- The promise of reliability and the twin objectives of the capital punishment system -- The consolation of common sense in the regulation of capital punishment -- The cockcrow of positivism : "normal" culpability in capital punishment jurisprudence -- The impact of Payne : the return of sense to capital punishment jurisprudence -- The end of error : DNA technology and the decision not to decide in capital cases -- The experience of judgment.
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