Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, the book explores how language, including written laws and trial talk, affects jurors' death penalty decisions. By focusing on how language can both facilitate and stymie empathic encounters, Conley investigates the interface between experiential and linguistic aspects of legal-decision making to address the moral conflict faced by jurors that is inherent to death penalty trials.
Confronting the Death Penalty probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, the book explores how language, including written laws and trial talk, affects jurors' death penalty decisions. By focusing on how language can both facilitate and stymie empathic encounters, Conley investigates the interface between experiential and linguistic aspects of legal-decision making to address the moral conflict faced by jurors that is inherent to death penalty trials.
Robin Conley Riner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Marshall University.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1 Introduction: "That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do" * 2 Doing Death in Texas: Studying jurors in "the death penalty state" * 3 "I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law": Emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions * 4 Facing death: Empathy, emotion and embodied actions in jurors' decisions * 5 Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants * 6 Agents of the state: Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions * 7 Conclusions: Linguistic dehumanization and democracy
* 1 Introduction: "That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do" * 2 Doing Death in Texas: Studying jurors in "the death penalty state" * 3 "I hope I'm strong enough to follow the law": Emotion and objectivity in capital jurors' decisions * 4 Facing death: Empathy, emotion and embodied actions in jurors' decisions * 5 Linguistic distance and the dehumanization of capital defendants * 6 Agents of the state: Capital jurors' accountability for their sentencing decisions * 7 Conclusions: Linguistic dehumanization and democracy
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