Gruesome Spectacles Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty

Name: Gruesome Spectacles Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
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ISBN: 9780804789165

ISBN-10: 0804789169

ISBN-13: 9780804789165

Edition: 2014

Authors: Austin Sarat

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"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 be sure that we are fulfilling the Supreme Court's mandate to ensure that his execution is "the mere…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.74" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy & Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought, Amherst College.