Last meals and final statements: Social science research on America’s Death Row

Walliss, John (2022) Last meals and final statements: Social science research on America’s Death Row. Sociology Compass, 16 (7). ISSN 1751-9020

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	© 2022 The Authors. Published Open Access under a creative commons CC-BY License.
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	John Walliss
Date Deposited:	03 May 2022 14:02
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2023 15:04
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3531

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