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Pain, death, and the law

Title
  1. Pain, death, and the law / edited by Austin Sarat.
Published by
  1. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c 2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Sarat, Austin.
Description
  1. 168 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Law, meaning, and violence
Uniform title
  1. Law, meaning, and violence
Subject
  1. Capital punishment > United States
  2. Human body > Law and legislation > United States
  3. Pain > Social aspects
  4. Capital punishment
  5. Human body > Law and legislation
  6. Pain > Social aspects
  7. Todesstrafe
  8. United States
  9. USA
Contents
  1. Introduction: on pain and death as facts of legal life / Austin Sarat -- The problem of pain in punishment: historical perspectives / Karl Shoemaker -- Killing me softly: capital punishment and the technologies for taking life / Austin Sarat -- What the law must not hear: on capital punishment and the voice of pain / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- The sacred name of pain: the role of victim impact evidence in death penalty sentencing decisions / Jennifer L. Culbert -- The problem of pain and the right to die / Shai J. Lavi.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.