Dead certainty : The death penalty and the problem of judgment

By:

Culbert Jennifer L

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Publication details: California Stanford University Press 2008Description: 235p ixISBN:

9780804757454

Subject(s):

1. Capital Punishment - U S A 2. Capital Punishment - MOral & Ethical Aspects3. Judgements - Criminal

DDC classification:

364.660973 CUL

Contents:

Contents: Judgment and metaphysics: American capital punishment jurisprudence and Friedrich Nietzsche's history of an error; The promise of reliability and the twin objectives of the capital punishment system; The consolation of common sense in the regulation of capital punishment; The cockcrow of positivism: "normal" culpability in capital punishment jurisprudence; The impact of Payne: the return of sense to capital punishment jurisprudence; The end of error: DNA technology and the decision not to decide in capital cases; The experience of judgement.

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Contents:
Judgment and metaphysics: American capital punishment jurisprudence and Friedrich Nietzsche's history of an error; The promise of reliability and the twin objectives of the capital punishment system;
The consolation of common sense in the regulation of capital punishment;
The cockcrow of positivism: "normal" culpability in capital punishment jurisprudence;
The impact of Payne: the return of sense to capital punishment jurisprudence;
The end of error: DNA technology and the decision not to decide in capital cases;
The experience of judgement.

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