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Story of Cruel and Unusual

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ISBN-10: 0262042398

ISBN-13: 9780262042390

Edition: 2007

Authors: Colin Dayan, Jeremy Waldron

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The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guantaacute;namo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of prisoners abroad have focused on U.S. military procedures and abuses of executive powers in the war on terror, or, more specifically, on the now-famous White House legal counsel memos on the acceptable limits of torture. But in The Story of Cruel and Unusual,Colin Dayan argues that anyone who has followed U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment would recognize the prisoners' treatment at Abu Ghraib and Guantaacute;namo as a natural extension of the language…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 4.81" wide x 7.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Colin Dayan is Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of, most recently, Haiti, History, and the Gods and is completing Held in the Body of the State, forthcoming.

Foreword
Trials of definition
Codes of law, bodies of color
Dead to rights
Mental states
The threshold of suffering
Tools of terror
Torture language
A new legal regime?
Giving flesh to history
Notes