Tag Archives: death penalty

Les Miz and Trump’s Execution Spree

By Robin Bates | Published: January 3, 2021

As Trump and Barr go on an execution spree, Victor Hugo’s thoughts on the guillotine come to mind.

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The Dickensian Horror of the Death Penalty

By Robin Bates | Published: July 13, 2015

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of problematic drugs for lethal injection. The Charles Dickens of “Oliver Twist” would be appalled.

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How To Reflect upon the Death Penalty

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2015

Our motivations for executing prisoners too often have little to do with justice. Cormac McCarthy understands this well in “All the Pretty Horses.”

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Atwood and a Woman on Death Row

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2015

Kelly Gissender, the Georgia woman scheduled to be executed, brings to mind Margaret Atwood’s meditations in “Alias Grace” on what goes on in a woman’s mind.

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Peter Wimsey vs. Oklahoma Executions

By Robin Bates | Published: January 16, 2015

With Oklahoma resuming its executions yesterday, we need the reminders that Dorothy Sayers and Oscar Wilde give us about holding on to our humanity.

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