‘To Shock the Conscience’: Rhetoric in Death Penalty Judgements of the Supreme Court of India
The dominant paradigm in scholarship on death penalty law in India is doctrinal and empirical. There is an equally indispensable need for a third approach that focuses on the rhetoric of and in death penalty judgements. In the first part of the paper I argue why such an approach is necessary, and in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2019
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South Asia
Year: 2019, Volume: 42, Issue: 4, Pages: 694-710 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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Death Penalty
B Ekphrasis B Narrative B Evidence B Rhetoric B Antirrhesis B Supreme Court of India B collective conscience |
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