Dead Certainty
Subtitle: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: December 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780804757461
Subjects: Capital punishment; Courts & procedure; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Law; Sociology; Penology; Law / Ethics; Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Description: This book is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, the book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death.