Festival of Punishment
Thomas Laqueur: On Death Row, 5 October 2000
Proximity to Death
by William McFeely.
Norton, 206 pp., £17.95, January 2000,0 393 04819 5 Show More
by William McFeely.
Norton, 206 pp., £17.95, January 2000,
Death Row: The Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment
edited by Bonnie Bobit.
Bobit, 311 pp., $24.95, September 1999,0 9624857 6 4 Show More
edited by Bonnie Bobit.
Bobit, 311 pp., $24.95, September 1999,
“... punishment in the United States subsists – inescapably – in a miasma of race. The Honorable John H. Land in 1977 presided over the trial of a black man called William Brooks, whose case McFeely follows. Land is the son of a prominent local dignitary who had seen to the lynching of an adolescent boy 65 years earlier. The barefoot ‘little black ... ”