Is the death penalty dying?
Subtitle: European and American perspectives
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Ju rgen Martschukat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780511989452; 9780521763516
Subjects: Capital punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: transatlantic perspectives on capital punishment: national identity, the death penalty, and the prospects for abolition  -- Austin Sarat and Ju rgen Martschukat -- Part I.; title: What Is a Penalty of Death: Capital Punishment in Context: -- 1.; title: The green, green grass of home: capital punishment and the penal system from a long-term perspective  -- Pieter Spierenburg; -- 2.; title: Did anyone die here?: legal personalities, the supermax, and the politics of abolition  -- Colin Dayan; -- 3.; title: Capital punishment as homeowners insurance: the rise of the homeowner citizen and the fate of ultimate sanctions in both Europe and the United States  -- Jonathan Simon -- Part II.; title: On the Meaning of Death and Pain in Europe and the United States: Viewing, Witnessing, Understanding: -- 4.; title: The witnessing of judgment: between error, mercy, and vindictiveness  -- Evi Girling; -- 5.; title: Unframing the death penalty: transatlantic discourse on the possibility of abolition and the execution of Saddam Hussein  -- Kathryn A. Heard; -- 6.; title: Executions and the debate about abolition in France and in the United States  -- Simon Grivet -- Part III.; title: Abolitionist Discourses, Abolitionist Strategies, Abolitionist Dilemmas: Transatlantic Perspectives: -- 7.; title: Civilized rebels: death-penalty abolition in Europe as cause, mark of distinction, and political strategy  -- Andrew Hammel; -- 8.; title: The death of dignity  -- Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn; -- 9.; title: Sovereignty and the unnecessary penalty of death: European and United States perspectives  -- Jon Yorke; -- 10.; title: European policy on the death penalty  -- Agata Fijalkowski; -- 11.; title: The long shadow of the death penalty: mass incarceration, capital punishment, and penal policy in the United States -- Marie Gottschalk.