What is it about?
People who have been released from death row play an important role in the movement to abolish the death penalty in the USA. Similarly, former slaves played an important role in the anti-slavery movement in pre-Civil War America. This article compares the roles of these two groups of people, exploring the lessons that today's exonerees can learn from former slaves.
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Why is it important?
Recently, supporters of the death penalty have been turning their backs on capital punishment because of the risk of innocent people being executed. However, there has been little academic study of how innocent people can more effectively encourage abolition.
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Using slave narratives to shed light on what death row exonerees can say to further abolition provided me with an interesting insight into the difficulties that exonerees face.
Dr Bharat Malkani
University of Birmingham
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This page is a summary of: Voices of the Condemned: A Comparative Study of the Testimonies of Death Row Exonerees and Slave Narratives, Law Culture and the Humanities, October 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1743872114556435.
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