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

----- 面对死刑：语言在死刑案件中对陪审团的影响

ISBN: 9780199334162 出版年：2015 页码：253 Conley, Robin Oxford University Press

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