Murder stories
Subtitle: ideological narratives in capital punishment
By: Paul Kaplan
Series: Issues in crime & justice
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739171707; 9780739171714
Subjects: Trials; Murder; Capital punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Capital punishment conflicts, narrativity, hegemony, and resistance; title: The American creed and American capital punishment; title: Death especially deregulated; title: The American creed in prosecutor and defender narratives; title: Forgetting the future : cause lawyering and the work of California capital trial defenders; title: Facts and furies : the antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors.