Confronting the Death Penalty How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases Robin Conley Riner Oxford Studies in Language and Law Examines actual jurors' experiences serving on death penalty trials Considers together the specific communicative strategies used in trials with those used by jurors when reflecting on their decisions Introduces a unique fusion of these compelling topics, using death penalty trials as an ethnographic case to illustrate the violent potential of legal language Provides an ethnographic approach to Texas death penalty trials