“‘He Never Had a Chance’: Capital Defendants in Contexts of Racist Fear” (Arlin M. Adams Center for Law and Society)
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Faylor Hall Susquehanna University, 514 University Ave., Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania 17870
…presented by Paul Kaplan. Although in many senses capital punishment is withering in America, use of the death penalty survives unabated in small pockets of the country, especially the collection of southern states that comprise the U.S. Bible Belt. A key factor driving death penalty activity in these communities is entrenched white fear of dangerous black and brown “outsiders.” In his talk for the Adams Center, Kaplan will discuss how capital mitigation—a sensibility that sees capital defendants as damaged human beings rather than terrifying monsters—offers an alternative to hegemonic narratives that sustain high rates of execution in parts of the American South.
Price: Admission is free and open to the public.