Dead certainty : the death penalty and the problem of judgment /
Culbert, Jennifer Louise.
Dead certainty : the death penalty and the problem of judgment / Jennifer L. Culbert. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008. - 235 p. ; 23 cm. - Cultural memory in the present .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.
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 judgment.
9780804757454 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804757453 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007029928
Capital punishment--United States.
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Judgments, Criminal--United States.
HV8699.U5 / C86 2008
364.660973
Dead certainty : the death penalty and the problem of judgment / Jennifer L. Culbert. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008. - 235 p. ; 23 cm. - Cultural memory in the present .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.
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 judgment.
9780804757454 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804757453 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0804757461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007029928
Capital punishment--United States.
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Judgments, Criminal--United States.
HV8699.U5 / C86 2008
364.660973