Matters of Life and Death: Political Theology in Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars

Eliminating the death penalty from drug crimes: requirements and Prohibitions

The Ideaof the capability of the death penalty to deal with drug-related crimes is, in essence, a guarantor of the goal of safeguarding human capital and social values. Certainly, Use of the death penalty can be accepted in response to some of the narcotics crimes. But there are many other crimes that follow the death penalty, but they can be categorically opposed and unsuccessful. Execution is...

Social death and political life in the study of slavery.

ABOARD THE HUDIBRAS IN 1786, in the course of a harrowing journey from Africa to America, a popular woman died in slavery. Although she was “universally esteemed” among her fellow captives as an “oracle of literature,” an “orator,” and a “songstress,” she is anonymous to historians because the sailor on the slave ship who described her death, the young William Butterworth, did not record her na...

Forecasting Life and Death : Juror Race , Religion , and Attitude toward the Death Penalty

Determining whether race, sex, or other juror characteristics influence how capital case jurors vote is difficult. Jurors tend to vote for death in more egregious cases and for life in less egregious cases no matter what their own characteristics. And a juror's personal characteristics may get lost in the process of deliberation because the final verdict reflects the jury's will, not the indivi...

Petitions for Life: Executive Clemency in Missouri Death Penalty Cases

Because the death penalty is the ultimate penalty, the question of whether guilty persons are being fairly convicted and appropriately sentenced claims the attention of the public and legal communities alike. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 87 people have been released from death row, wrongfully convicted of capital murder. 2 In January of 2000, Republican and pro-death penalty ...

Opposing the death penalty.