The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Perspectives (The Cultural Lives of Law)
by Austin Sarat, Christian Boulanger
Category: Social Science

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? In this volume the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty we need to know more about the “cultural lives”—past and present—of the state’s ultimate sanction.