Gruesome spectacles : botched executions and America's death penalty / / Austin Sarat ; with Katherine Blumstein [and three others]

• Autore: Sarat Austin
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford Law Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.660973
• Soggetto topico: Executions and executioners - United States - History; Capital punishment - United States - History
• Persona (resp. second.): BlumsteinKatherine
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; CHAPTER 1- The Mere Extinguishment of Life? Technological Efficiency, Botched Executions, and the Legitimacy of Capital Punishment in the United States; CHAPTER 2- A Clumsy, Inefficient, Inhuman Thing Death by Hanging; CHAPTER 3- When Science Fails Electrocution; CHAPTER 4- A Short and Unhappy History The Gas Chamber; CHAPTER 5- "How Enviable a Quiet Death" Lethal Injection; CHAPTER 6- Botched Executions and the Struggle to End Capital Punishment; Appendix A; Appendix B; Acknowledgments; A Note on Collaboration; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: ""How enviable a quiet death by lethal injection,"" wrote Justice Scalia, in a concurring opinion that denied review of a Texas death penalty case. But is it quiet? Renewed and vigorous debate over the death penalty has erupted as DNA testing has proven that many on death row are in fact innocent. In this debate, however, the guilty have been forgotten. In his new book, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty, renowned legal scholar Austin Sarat describes just how unquiet death by execution can be. If we assume a death row prisoner is guilty, how can we
• Titolo autorizzato: Gruesome spectacles
• ISBN: 0-8047-9172-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786933803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II