Confronting the Death Penalty

Table of Contents ; 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 law. ; 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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• Questões éticas: a pena de morte
• Direito e sociedade
• Direito penal e processo
• Criminologia: aspectos jurídicos