Amusing Monsters

37 Pages Posted: 27 Jun 2005 Last revised: 2 Oct 2009

Abstract

In this review of Austin Sarat's important book When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition, the reviewer invokes Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan to inform our understanding of the killing state. Because capital punishment is carried out pursuant to the democratic processes, the execution involves us all, done as it is in our name. Those committed to the end of the killing state, and to the end of the violent hierarchies that allow the killing state to exist, will find Surat's book "a valuable articulation of a committed and responsible approach to the problems of our time."

Keywords: Austin Sarat, When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, killing state, capital punishment

Suggested Citation

Farley, Anthony Paul, Amusing Monsters. Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 23, 2002, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=753498

Anthony Paul Farley (Contact Author)

Albany Law School ( email )

80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, NY 12208
United States

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