• ISBN13: 9780804757461
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• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book focuses on United States Supreme Court opinions that authorize and regulate the practice of sentencing people to death. Unlike other books that discuss capital punishment, it does not argue for or against the death p… More >>

Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment

Tags: capital punishment, final decisions, public concern, remainder mark, states supreme court, supreme court opinions, united states supreme court, united states supreme court opinions

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