Book Review: Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution

Agamben, Giorgio (1998) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press .

Banner, Stuart (2002) The Death Penalty: An American History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

Derrida, Jacques (1999) ‘The Century and the Pardon’ , Le Mondes des Debates 9 (December): http://fixion.systes.net/pardonEng.htm

Sarat, Austin (2001) When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press .