Demands of the Dead: Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States

Index

313 Index Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 14, 19, 86, 297–98 Administrative segregation. See isolation Agamben, Giorgio, 277 Alabama, 9–10, 116–17, 187, 261 Amsterdam, Anthony, 3 Atherton, Gertrude, 162–80 The Autobiography of Malcolm X, xi, 63 Beccaria, Cesare di, 144–47, 221 Bedau, Hugo, 147, 163, 221 Benjamin, Walter, 19–20, 275, 286 Boudreau, Kristin, 164 Brennan, William, 3, 23n19 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 20 Brown, John, 134n60, 156 California, 6, 59, 68, 75, 78, 172, 215, 216, 277, 280, 292n26 Cash, Johnny, 3, 281 Chaska (We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee), 16–17, 135 Cheever, George Barrell, 149–50 Chomsky, Noam, 7 Clark, Mary E., 76 Conquergood, Dwight, 7, 162 Crazy Horse, 18, 181–214 Critical Resistance, 28n92, 78 Da Lench Mob, 273–94 Darrow, Clarence, 13 Davis, Angela, 8, 9, 10, 13, 20, 278 Davis, David Brion, 140 Davis, Troy, 5, 259 Derrida, Jacques, 19, 221–34 Douglass, Frederick, 3, 158n1 Dow, David, 1, 14, 259 Dreiser, Theodore, 172 Du Bois, W. E. B., 8, 13, 65 Edison, Thomas, 118–19, 165, 166, 167, 169, 171 electric chair, 1, 4, 15, 18, 33–55, 118– 22, 162–78, 262, 263; Electric Execution Act, 120–21, 162–66, 173 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 3 The Exonerated, 255–72 Florida, 51, 138, 256, 257, 261, 263, 276 Foucault, Michel, 223, 259 Francis, Willie, 1, 6, 14–15, 16, 45, 48– 49, 52–57, 137 Franklin, H. Bruce, 2, 16, 47 Gaines, Ernest, 15, 45–58 Genet, Jean, 221, 227, 231 Georgia, 9, 23n19, 116, 117, 259, 260 Graham, Gary (Shaka Sankofa), 296 Guantánamo (Cuba), 59, 104 Guerrillas in the Mist (Da Lench Mob), 273–94 Hames-García, Michael, 13 hanging (legal), 1, 8, 35, 113, 114, 117– 22, 125, 127, 139, 141–42, 155, 156, 162–70, 284; fantasy, 238; Rainey Bethea, 285 Harper, Michael, 240, 244–48 Harris, Carlyle, 171–72 Hartman, Saidiya, 48, 265 Hartnett, Stephen, 11 314 index Haslam, Jason, 5 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 140, 150–52, 153; The Scarlet Letter, 2, 156–57 Haymarket Affair, 4, 22n8, 133n45 Holton, Daryl Keith, 178 Howells, William Dean, 4, 165–67, 174 Illinois, 4, 257, 258, 261, 268 isolation, 11, 12, 82, 104, 216, 268 Jackson, George, 3, 11, 19, 82–83 Kafka, Franz, 19, 222, 226–32 Kant, Immanuel, 221–33, 283, 288, 289 Kemmler, William, 120–21, 167, 169– 71, 173 Kentucky, 4 King, Gilbert, 52 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 68, 240, 244– 45 King, Rodney, 79, 275, 276–77, 281, 292n27 Knight, Etheridge, 240, 243–44 A Lesson Before Dying (Gaines), 15, 45–58 lethal injection, 4, 7, 15, 162, 178, 273, 282, 284 Livingston, Edward, 139, 143, 146, 147–48 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 116, 140 Louisiana, 1, 6, 15, 33, 45, 100, 117, 137, 139, 143 lynching, 3, 8–9, 19, 74, 223, 239–54, 285–86, 290n12 Malcolm X, xi, 63, 66, 68 Masur, Louis, 5, 145–46, 158n1 McVeigh, Timothy, 273 Melville, Herman, 10, 11, 140, 157; Billy Budd, A Sailor, 16, 113–34 mental disabilities, 2, 4, 23n25, 109, 184–85, 260 Mitford, Jessica, 12 MOVE, 240, 248–50, 297 murder victims, 238, 245, 248, 261, 285; closure, 47; families’ activism, 13, 28n93, 258; fictional representation , 181–213; rights, 6; statistics, 10, 27n69, 261, 273; in trials and executions, 266, 273–74 Neal, John, 141–44 Neal, Larry, 240, 242–43, 245, 248, 249, 250 New Mexico, 4 New York, 4, 72, 85, 114, 116, 118–21, 127, 128, 139, 140, 143, 144, 147, 158n1, 162–65, 167, 172, 259, 267 Oklahoma, 227, 273 O’Sullivan, John, 140, 147–50, 152–53 Paul, Ron, 276 Pennsylvania, 116, 122, 139, 143, 148, 297 Piñero, Manuel, 11 Plath, Sylvia, 2 Prejean, Helen, 6 public executions, 4–5, 114, 124, 127– 28, 132n27, 141–44, 148, 155, 239, 288, 290n5; last in United States, 285 racism, 3, 7–11, 16–18, 50, 182, 185, 197–98, 235, 239–54 Randall, Dudley, 240–43, 245, 250 index 315 restorative justice, 13, 16, 76–77 retributive justice, 76–77, 86–87, 268 Rockwell, Alfonso David, 167–69 Rodriguez, Dylan, 11, 12 Rush, Benjamin, 5, 146, 147, 152 San Quentin, 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 30n107, 59, 65, 68, 74, 78, 81–83, 215, 292n26 Sanchez, Sonia, 69, 240, 248–50 Sarat, Austin, 8, 163, 168, 276 The Scarlet Letter, 2, 156–57 Scottsboro case, 9–11, 264 Simms, William Gilmore, 140 Sinclair, Upton, 2...