Last meals and final statements

Social science research on America's death row

Bibliographic Data

ID12912186
AuthorsJohn Walli (0000-0002-3192-4834, Liverpool Hope University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume16
Issue7
Publication date2022-05-23
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soc4.12987
OpenAlexW4281293441
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

Over the past two decades, a growing body of work has emerged in the social sciences that explores various aspects of capital punishment in the contemporary United States. This article reviews one strand of this literature that focuses on the execution ritual itself – specifically on condemned inmates’ last meals and the final statements that they make in the execution chamber just prior to their execution. It also discusses some of the limitations of the research and offers some ideas for future scholarship in this area

Capital (architecture · Capital punishment · Criminology · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Scholarship · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law

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