Pain, death, and the law / edited by Austin Sarat.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.

Series:

Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (179 p.)

Subjects:

Human body -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Capital punishment -- United States.
Pain -- Social aspects.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts

Contents:

Contents; 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; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on information from the publisher.

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) publisher.

ISBN:

1-282-42282-0
9786612422829
0-472-02285-7

OCLC:

824099860

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.11377 doi

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