{"product_id":"mercy-on-trial-what-it-means-to-stop-an-execution","title":"Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAustin Sarat\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780691133997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePrinceton University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan. For opponents of capital punishment, however, Ryan became an instant hero whose decision was seen as a signal moment in the new abolitionist politics to end killing by the state. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns our focus from questions of guilt and innocence to the very meaning of mercy. Starting from Ryan's controversial decision, \u003ci\u003eMercy on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e uses the lens of executive clemency in capital cases to discuss the fraught condition of mercy in American political life. Most pointedly, Sarat argues that mercy itself is on trial. Although it has always had a problematic position as a form of lawful lawlessness, it has come under much more intense popular pressure and criticism in recent decades. This has yielded a radical decline in the use of the power of chief executives to stop executions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the history of capital clemency in the twentieth century to surrounding legal controversies and philosophical debates about when (if ever) mercy should be extended, Sarat examines the issue comprehensively. In the end, he acknowledges the risks associated with mercy--but, he argues, those risks are worth taking.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution | Austin Sarat | Quality | 9780691133997 | Used: Very Good | Politics 1351901 (temp: 24)","offer_id":48919733698712,"sku":"1351901","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41cLz2Lj_4L.jpg?v=1776981818","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mercy-on-trial-what-it-means-to-stop-an-execution","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}