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,
“... the very odd discussion in which we in the US are engaged today. One of them, Justice Potter Stewart, held that Furman’s punishment would be ‘cruel and unusual’ as a matter of statistical observation: to find oneself the one man to be executed out of several thousand who were eligible was ‘cruel and unusual’ in the same sense as ‘being struck ... ”
