Dead certainty
Subtitle: the death penalty and the problem of judgment
By: Jennifer L. Culbert.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780804757454; 9780804757461
Subjects: Capital punishment -- United States; Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Judgments, Criminal -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Judgment and metaphysics : American capital punishment jurisprudence and Friedrich Nietzsche's history of an error; title: The promise of reliability and the twin objectives of the capital punishment system; title: The consolation of common sense in the regulation of capital punishment; title: The cockcrow of positivism : "normal" culpability in capital punishment jurisprudence; title: The impact of Payne : the return of sense to capital punishment jurisprudence; title: The end of error : DNA technology and the decision not to decide in capital cases; title: The experience of judgment.