Culbert, Jennifer Louise. <br/><br/>
Dead certainty :  the death penalty and the problem of judgment / 
Jennifer L. Culbert. 
 - Stanford, Calif. :  Stanford University Press,  c2008. 
 - 235 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Cultural memory in the present .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804757454 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804757453 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007029928 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--United States.<br/>Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.<br/>Judgments, Criminal--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8699.U5  / C86 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.660973