Dead certainty : the death penalty and the problem of judgment /
Culbert, Jennifer Louise.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2008.
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.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment
Judgments, Criminal
Dead certainty.