Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mercy on TrialCondition: NewSubtitle: What It Means to Stop an ExecutionISBN-10: 0691133999EAN: 9780691133997ISBN: 9780691133997Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/19/2007Description: On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous ...that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan. For opponents of capital punishment, however, Ryan became an instant hero whose decision was seen as a signal moment in the "new abolitionist" politics to end killing by the state. In this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns our focus from questions of guilt and innocence to the very meaning of mercy. Starting from Ryan's controversial decision, Mercy on Trial uses the lens of executive clemency in capital cases to discuss the fraught condition of mercy in American political life. Most pointedly, Sarat argues that mercy itself is on trial. Although it has always had a problematic position as a form of "lawful lawlessness," it has come under much more intense popular pressure and criticism in recent decades. This has yielded a radical decline in the use of the power of chief executives to stop executions.From the history of capital clemency in the twentieth century to surrounding legal controversies and philosophical debates about when (if ever) mercy should be extended, Sarat examines the issue comprehensively. In the end, he acknowledges the risks associated with mercy--but, he argues, those risks are worth taking.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 482gAuthor: Austin SaratGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Philosophy & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2007 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Mercy on Trial
Title: Mercy on Trial
Subtitle: What It Means to Stop an Execution
ISBN-10: 0691133999
EAN: 9780691133997
ISBN: 9780691133997
Release Date: 08/19/2007
Release Year: 2007
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Mercy on Trial : What It Means to Stop an Execution
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: American Government / Judicial Branch, General, Criminal Law / General, Jurisprudence
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Austin Sarat
Subject Area: Law, Political Science
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Perfect
