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

by Robin Conley and Robin Conley Riner

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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"

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