Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Volume 42

List of contributors......Page 1
Editorial board......Page 2
Evolutionary history: The changing purposes for capital punishment......Page 4
Introduction......Page 5
The justification for capital punishment: Retribution......Page 9
Defining retribution......Page 10
Retribution at the founding......Page 12
The changing purposes of capital punishment......Page 18
Conclusion......Page 20
Cases cited......Page 22
The heart has its reasons: Examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty......Page 23
The traditional rationales revisited......Page 27
Retribution......Page 28
Deterrence......Page 32
Incapacitation......Page 33
The expressive rationales compared......Page 34
The essential role of emotion......Page 36
The feedback loop......Page 39
Salience......Page 41
Concluding thoughts: Claiming the emotional terrain......Page 45
Notes......Page 46
References......Page 50
Cases Cited......Page 54
Rule of law abolitionism......Page 55
The distinctiveness of rule of law abolitionism......Page 57
The logic of rule of law abolitionism......Page 60
Rules, rationality, and legitimacy......Page 64
Strong and weak rule of law abolitionism......Page 70
Rule of law abolitionism - promise and peril......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 79
Notes......Page 81
References......Page 88
Cases Cited......Page 91
Not wiser after 35 years of contemplating the death penalty......Page 92
Introduction......Page 93
Illustrative case no. 1 - Nigeria and the armed robbery tribunal in 1972-1973......Page 94
Illustrative case no. 2 - New Jersey, 1980-1992......Page 99
The change in the political climate in the 1990s......Page 107
Illustrative case no. 3 - Illinois, 1998-2003......Page 108
Is the death penalty dying? - the unexpected momentum of the lethal injection cases......Page 116
Conclusion and summary......Page 122
Notes......Page 125
References......Page 131
Facts and furies: The antinomies of facts, law, and retribution in the work of capital prosecutors......Page 135
Data and methods......Page 136
Capital punishment’s indelibility......Page 137
Contradictions of capital punishment......Page 139
Contradictions in prosecutor narratives and consciousness......Page 142
Facts......Page 144
Law......Page 148
Furies......Page 149
Institutional norms......Page 155
Notes......Page 156
Acknowledgment......Page 157
References......Page 158
Interviewees......Page 159
Introduction......Page 160
The Death Penalty in Public International Law......Page 162
The Death Penalty in Nation States......Page 163
Conclusions......Page 164
U.S. Regulation Norms......Page 165
Judicial Domestication in Theory......Page 166
Confirmatory......Page 170
Comparable Interpretation......Page 171
Modes of Judicial Domestication......Page 172
No Judicial Domestication......Page 173
‘‘When’’ The Death Penalty May Be Imposed......Page 174
‘‘Who’’ The Death Penalty May Be Imposed Upon......Page 175
‘‘How’’ the Death Penalty Is Administered......Page 178
Potential consequences of the court’s current approach to judicial domestication......Page 180
The Court’s Current Approach to Judicial Domestication Will Not Lead to a Finding that the Death Penalty Violates ‘‘Evolving Standards of Decency’’......Page 181
The Threat to Sovereignty......Page 185
An Affront to State Rights......Page 186
Potential Consequences......Page 187
Conclusions......Page 189
Notes......Page 190
References......Page 191
Introduction......Page 194
Capital sentencing jurisprudence and unraveling in anthropology......Page 197
Visual Epistemologies in Cultural Anthropology......Page 199
Visuality’s Self-Unraveling......Page 201
‘‘Drawing the Line’’ in Death Penalty Jurisprudence......Page 202
Death penalty scholarship......Page 203
Cultural Anthropology as Disciplinary Knowledge......Page 204
Bodily Forms of Knowledge......Page 205
Mitigation and Representation......Page 209
Conclusion: Death, unraveled......Page 210
Acknowledgments......Page 212
Sources......Page 213