Austin Sarat

Austin Sarat's books

Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty

3.64 avg rating — 145 ratings

When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition

3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings

Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution

4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings

Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution

3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings

From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice, 6)

4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings

Cause Lawyers and Social Movements

3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings

Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings

Four Trials That Changed the World

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings

The Death Penalty on the Ballot: American Democracy and the Fate of Capital Punishment

3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings

The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings