...Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman This essay asks not how literature imagines the death penalty, but how it doesn't—and what this narrative resistance can tell us about our culture's relationship to capital punishment. With the abolition of public executions in England in 1868 (and the last public...

...Adam Thurschwell Capital punishment has been analyzed in recent Anglo-American jurisprudence as a problem of moral rather than political philosophy—as a question of when, if ever, the heinousness of a crime justifies the imposition of death as a matter of retributive justice; when, if ever...

... of Incarceration on Families . http://whopaysreport.org/who-pays-full-report/ . A G A I N S T the D A Y Dispatches on Carceral Debt Andrew Ross, Editor A G A I N S T the D A Y Andrew Ross Introduction: Punishment by Debt M ass incarceration serves so many cruel purposes in the United States...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII OCTOBER Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly Recent Death-Orgies: A Study of Capital Punishment. Charles Kassel Fort Worth, Texas The epidemic of executions in the South, with five negroes at Huntsville, Texas...

... point for a reflection on the impossible discourses of capital punishment, from the vindictive to the reassuring, including instances from legal opinions. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Peter Brooks Death in the First Person The scaffold is the only edifice...

...Adam Sitze This essay offers a rereading of Cesare Beccaria's 1764 On Crimes and Punishments , the text usually considered the intellectual origin of the movement to abolish the death penalty. It argues that the singularity of Beccaria's text consists in the way it problematizes not only...

... of the students' demands were necessarily reformist (saving rather than exiting the university), their collective punishment and negative solidarity provides a model for contemporary political practice in general. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Nina Power Dangerous Subjects...

... that presume it has a discrete before and after. How do logics of innocence and punishment undergird such models of disability? And how do such notions then determine who is seen as deserving of care? Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 disability trauma temporality race innocence...

... detention from the legal scrutiny generally applied to comparable deprivations of liberty in the context of criminal punishment. The article also evaluates recent immigration detention reform efforts and their limitations, assessing the potential impact of current immigration reform proposals on immigration...

..., executions in the United States fell from 1999’s all-time high of ninety- eight to forty-two.1 What seemed unimaginable little more than a decade ago, namely, the end of capital punishment...

... of the settlement and colonization of the territory of the United States, measures which were not wholly legal in their nature were occasionally adopted in the punishment of public offenders. During the colonial period, in *Dr. Cutler is the author of the valuable work on Lynch Law which received notice...

.... The prosecution represents the law-enforcement arm of the government and seeks a conviction of the defendant in the name of the community. The court acts as a judicial umpire to determine whether or not the defendant is guilty as charged and, if so, to fix an appropriate punishment. The trials of war criminals...

... Is Up? Decarcerate! ” November 9 . www.socialjusticejournal.org . “ The Folsom Prisoners Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Oppression Platform .” 1970 . November 3 . Author’s copy . Foucault Michel . 1977 . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . New York : Pantheon...

... to the fact that these investi­ gating committees have approached their subject from the conventional angle. They have accepted symptoms for diseases. They have lost sight of causes and have fallen back upon the old, threadbare theory of severity and certainty of punishment as a solution for crime...

... a guilty man; and for fear one guilty of rape should escape in a legal trial, they say, let us lynch him and be sure that he is punished. The people can look with composure on a man s escaping punishment for any crime but this. Therefore, we should remove all such excuses for lynching. 350 The South...

...) is punished by God s agent, Henry Bolingbroke. Having usurped the throne and killed Richard II, Bolinbroke incurs God s vengeance, which is visited not upon Bolingbroke but upon his third heir, Henry VI. For the nation that supported the coronation of Bolingbroke, the penalty is, of course, the War...

... of the harshest aspects of punishment, they also abetted in shifting the cost of incarceration away from the state and onto individuals and in the process, exacerbated inequalities inside. Without basic institutional provisions, those who lacked family contributions or advantageous prison employment suffered most...

... self-determine their reproductive lives without interference or punishment by the state. One of the most pernicious lies of the Dobbs opinion is the claim that it was merely restoring the law to what it was in 1973, prior to Roe . There is no going back to a time before pervasive use of high...

... Revolutions Happen . New York : W. W. Norton . Avdela E. 2011 . “ Honour, Violence, and Crime .” In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives , edited by Cheliotis L. K. Xenakis S. , 353 – 73 . Oxford : Peter Lang AG . Barry J...