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Condemned to Die - Life Under Sentence of Death (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Condemned to Die - Life Under Sentence of Death (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Condemned to Die is a book about life under sentence of death in
American prisons. The great majority of condemned prisoners are
confined on death rows before they are executed. Death rows
typically feature solitary confinement, a harsh regimen that is
closely examined in this book. Death rows that feature solitary
confinement are most common in states that execute prisoners with
regularity, which is to say, where there is a realistic threat that
condemned prisoners will be put to death. Less restrictive
confinement conditions for condemned prisoners can be found in
states where executions are rare. Confinement conditions matter,
especially to prisoners, but a central contention of this book is
that no regimen of confinement under sentence of death offers its
inmates a round of activity that might in any way prepare them for
the ordeal they must face in the execution chamber, when they are
put to death. In a basic and profound sense, all condemned
prisoners are warehoused for death in the shadow of the
executioner. Human warehousing, seen most clearly on solitary
confinement death rows, violates every tenet of just punishment; no
legal or philosophical justification for capital punishment demands
or even permits warehousing of prisoners under sentence of death.
The punishment is death. There is neither a mandate nor a
justification for harsh and dehumanizing confinement before the
prisoner is put to death. Yet warehousing for death, of an empty
and sometimes brutal nature, is the universal fate of condemned
prisoners. The enormous suffering and injustice caused by this
human warehousing, rendered in the words of the prisoners
themselves, is the subject of this book.
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