Execution Day

Fifteen Days to an Execution: A Second Chance at Eternal Life is a stunning novel about life and death. In search of an experimental drug to save his own deteriorating life, Reverend Harold Johnson looks for extra ways to support his family. Taking a job on death row at a federal prison, he grows fond of one of the two men set to die by execution. Feeling morally responsible to change the non-believer’s heart and grant him eternal life, the reverend valiantly tries to convert the murderous assassin Turk Vanhel to Christianity. Due to the reverend’s failing health, he is advised that these stressful activities could threaten his health and be fatal. But while pursuing his spiritual mission, he fails to realize that Turk is possessed of a split personality, one that refuses to be transformed to into anything loving.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall. By examining a period of dramatic change in punishment practice, this collection of essays provides a fresh historical perspective on nineteenth century execution culture, with a focus on Scotland, Wales and the regions of England. From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual has two parts. Part 1 addresses the criminal body and the witnessing of executions in the nineteenth century, including studies of the execution crowd and executioners’ memoirs, as well as reflections on the experience of narratives around capital punishment in museums in the present day. Part 2 explores the treatment of the execution experience in the print media, from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. The collection draws together contributions from the fields of Heritage and Museum Studies, History, Law, Legal History and Literary Studies, to shed new light on execution culture in nineteenth century Britain. This volume will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of criminology, heritage and museum studies, history, law, legal history, medical humanities and socio-legal studies.

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Western societies abandoned public executions in favor of private punishments, primarily confinement in penitentiaries and private executions. The transition, guided by a reconceptualization of the causes of crime, the nature of authority, and the purposes of punishment, embodied the triumph of new sensibilities and the reconstitution of cultural values throughout the Western world. This study examines the conflict over capital punishment in the United States and the way it transformed American culture between the Revolution and the Civil War. Relating the gradual shift in rituals of punishment and attitudes toward discipline to the emergence of a middle class culture that valued internal restraints and private punishments, Masur traces the changing configuration of American criminal justice. He examines the design of execution day in the Revolutionary era as a spectacle of civil and religious order, the origins of organized opposition to the death penalty and the invention of the penitentiary, the creation of private executions, reform organizations' commitment to social activism, and the competing visions of humanity and society lodged at the core of the debate over capital punishment. A fascinating and thoughtful look at a topic that remains of burning interest today, Rites of Execution will attract a wide range of scholarly and general readers.

Until the early twentieth century, printed invitations to executions issued by lawmen were a vital part of the ritual of death concluding a criminal proceeding in the United States. In this study, Gordon Morris Bakken invites readers to an understanding of the death penalty in America with a collection of essays that trace the history and politics of this highly charged moral, legal, and cultural issue. Bakken has solicited essays from historians, political scientists, and lawyers to ensure a broad treatment of the evolution of American cultural attitudes about crime and capital punishment. Part one of this extensive analysis focuses on politics, legal history, multicultural issues, and the international aspects of the death penalty. Part two offers a regional analysis with essays that put death penalty issues into a geographic and cultural context. Part three focuses on specific states with emphasis on the need to understand capital punishment in terms of state law development, particularly because states determine on whom the death penalty will be imposed. Part four examines the various means of death, from hanging to lethal injection, in state law case studies. And finally, part five focuses on the portrayal of capital punishment in popular culture.

Internationally known life coach, radio station owner, lead singer in a pop rock band, mediation coach, and mediapersonality, Randi Rossario, has released her new book "Good Day Goals" which will serve as a workbook in goalsetting, planning and executing. The book will be available for preorder on November 1st 2018 and on site purchasewill be available at the book launch. With that plans to make appearances nationwide for a book tour dates will beprovided as they are confirmed. You can stay updated by visiting www.randirossario.com.As an influencer in women leadership and overall positive mentor and motivator, Randi is paving the way with thisworkbook aiming to continue to impact the majority in reaching their goals. Whether its lifestyle goals, romanticgoals, business goals, or even metal health goals this workbook will be the perfect tool in guiding individualsthrough the process. Randi is unafraid; exhibiting nurturing, outspoken yet sensible characteristics she findsrelatable to Erykah Badu. Known as the "Queen Of New Detroit" Randi was born and raised on the east side ofDetroit, has always carried a giving personality and wanting to do positive things for her city. She has taken part inseveral givebacks/giveaways as well as work in the line of advocacy and humanitarian work which is influential tothe purpose behind this workbook."Good Day Goals" is a make it make sense and execute style workbook. The style meaning, each goal that is beingreached for can be attained by simply making it make sense for the individual at hand.Rossario speaks on 'Good Day Goals':"I've been working hard to provide daily videos of funny advice while curating a workbook toseriously put the work into your goals. 'Good Day Goals' is a planning and execution workbookto help make sense of all the steps it takes to reach your goals and take action! No matter whatyour goals is through this workbook it will all make sense! "

Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that change within our understandings of lynching and competing visions of justice and religion. Intended to shame and intimidate, public executions after the Civil War had quite a different effect on southern Black communities. Crowds typically consisting of as many Black people as white behaved like congregations before a macabre pulpit, led in prayer and song by a Black minister on the scaffold. Black criminals often proclaimed their innocence and almost always their salvation. This turned the proceedings into public, mixed-race, and mixed-gender celebrations of Black religious authority and devotion. In response, southern states rewrote their laws to eliminate these crowds and this Black authority, ultimately turning to electrocutions in the bowels of state penitentiaries. As a wave of lynchings crested around the turn of the twentieth century, states transformed the ways that the South's white-dominated governments controlled legal capital punishment, making executions into private affairs witnessed only by white people.

The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a short novel by Victor Hugo. Having witnessed several executions by guillotine as a young man, Hugo devoted himself in his art and political life to opposing the death penalty in France. Praised by Dostoevsky as “absolutely the most real and truthful of everything that Hugo wrote,” The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a powerful story from an author who defined nineteenth century French literature. If you knew when and where you would die, how would you spend your final moments? For Hugo’s unnamed narrator, such an existential question is made reality. Sentenced to death for an unspecified crime, he reflects on his life as its last seconds wane in the shadows of a cramped prison cell. Recording his emotional state, observations, and conversations with a priest and fellow prisoner, the condemned man forces us to not only recognize his humanity, but question our own. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.