Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases

by Robin Conley and Robin Conley Riner

Book Overview

Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors', attorneys', and judges' actions and experiences while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199334161
• ISBN13: 9780199334162
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 9.6"