Confronting the death penalty
Subtitle: how language influences jurors in capital cases
By: Robin Conley
Series: Oxford studies in language and law; Oxford studies in language and law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780199334162
Subjects: Jury; Capital punishment; Decision making
Description: "Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, Robin Conley explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : that's the hardest thing I've ever had to do; title: Doing death in Texas : studying jurors in the death penalty state; title: I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law : emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions; title: Facing death : empathy, emotion, and embodied actions in jurors' decisions; title: Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants; title: Agents of the state : Capital jurors' accountability for death sentences; title: Conclusions : linguistic dehumanization and democracy.