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02276aam a2200361 a 4500 001 6BC1E1AAB42811E0BC9DBCB56AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110722010355 008 110217s2011 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011006720 020 $a 1558498826 (library cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781558498822 (library cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 1558498834 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781558498839 (pbk. : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d YBM $d BWX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV8699.U5 $b W49 2011 245 0 $a Who deserves to die : $b constructing the executable subject / $c edited by Austin Sarat and Karl Shoemaker. 260 $a Amherst : $b University of Massachusetts Press, $c c2011. 300 $a viii, 312 p. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a What kind of self is the executable subject? -- The medieval origins of the Supreme Court's prohibition on executing the insane -- The unlucky psychopath as death penalty prototype -- Waiving from death row -- No remorse -- Constructing the executable subject: sacrifice and the rituals of State killing -- The unsacrificeable subject? -- Last words: structuring the State's power to punish -- The meaning of death: last words, last meals -- New perspectives on selfhood and the purposes of capital punishment -- Executing retributivism: Panetti and the future of the eighth amendment -- Therapeutic death -- The dead, the human animal, the executable subject. 520 $a Death penalty scholars "assess the forms of legal subjectivity and legal community that are supported and constructed by the doctrines and practices of punishment by death in the United States. They help us understand what we do and who we become when we decide who is fit for execution." -- Back cover. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $x Moral and ethical aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Discrimination in capital punishment $z United States. 700 1 $a Sarat, Austin. 700 1 $a Shoemaker, Karl. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825092221.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20110722011331.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6BC1E1AAB42811E0BC9DBCB56AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search