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Abu Ghraib, 160, 161
activism, 5–6
Afghanistan, 125, 168, 171, 181, 221n2, 240n3, 244n63
Alabama, 157
Alexander II, Tsar, 123
Alito, Samuel (Justice), 38
Alston, Philip, 153
Alvord, Gary, 8
Anidjar, Gil, 115, 234nn51,54
Aquinas, Thomas, 168, 170, 183
Arasse, Daniel, 71, 73–74, 76, 82, 100, 225n13, 226n33, 228nn65,76
Ardagh, John (General Sir), 175
Aristotle, 101–4, 232nn30,32
Arkansas, 159
Atkins v. Virginia, 30, 31, 34–36, 38, 41–42, 223n12
Asad, Talal, 236n7
Augustine, Saint, 168, 170, 183
Austria, 131
Australia, 241n15
al-Awlaki, Anwar, 171
al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman, 175
Badinter, Robert, 236n11
Banner, Stuart, 59, 61, 64
Barbour, Charles, 246n91
Barret-Kriegel, Blandine, 190
Barthes, Roland, 5
Baze v. Rees, 18, 19, 22, 23, 26–28, 30, 36–37, 39, 40, 43, 47, 50, 222n3
Bazin, André, 78–79, 81, 82–83
Beard v. Banks, 161
Beccaria, Cesare, 163
Beitler, Lawrence, 56, 224n4
Ben Ali, Zine al-Abidine, 3
Ben Salem, Moncef, 2
Bethea, Rainey, 61, 156
Billacois, François, 239n33
biopolitics, 72, 154–55
Blackmun, Harry A. (Justice), 6, 9, 17–18, 29, 46–52, 54, 57, 206, 209, 214, 224n1
Blanchot, Maurice, 10, 131–49, 203, 250n19
blood, 73–75, 79–80, 82, 85, 91, 192, 216, 230n6, 231n7; absence of, 24, 95–96, 114, 119; bloodletting, 81, 87–88, 90, 95, 118; and Christianity, 90, 92; and concept, 92, 107–8; cultural history of, 91, 114–15; as external, 92, 110–13, 116–18, 208; as fluid life, 107–9; in Hegel, 10, 92, 106–14; and sublation of (inorganic) air, 110–12; as temporality, 10, 27, 91, 113–14, 116–18; universal, 106–9, 113; vegetal, 108, 114
Bosco, Ronald A., 62–63
Boyce v. Anderson, 161
Brennan, William J. (Justice), 18, 22
Breyer, Stephen (Justice), 18, 55, 56, 57, 86, 224n2
Büchner, Georg, 184
Bucklew, Russell, 223n9
Buffet, Claude, 236n11
Bush, George W., 152, 159, 168, 174, 181
burning (at the stake), 1, 26, 223n8, 230n8
Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges, 69–73, 227n56
Callins v. Collins, 6, 9, 17–19, 29, 46, 48–52, 54, 55, 222n1, 224nn1,2
Cameron, Sharon, 240n38
Cameroon, 152
Camus, Albert, 5, 95, 126
Carney, Cormac J., 243n43
Carpenter, Scott Dawn, 89
Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo, 60, 64
Celan, Paul, 177, 183–84
Chamayou, Grégoire, 70–72, 151, 171–77, 227n47
Charles X, 188, 248nn6,7
China, 42, 123, 221n2
circumstances, extenuating (circonstances atténuantes), 188, 191, 198
Clinton, William Jefferson, 159, 168
Clinton, Hillary, 3
Coker v. Georgia, 31, 42, 57, 157, 158, 223n13, 242n28
Congo, Democratic Republic of, 42
consciousness, eighteenth-century debate concerning, 69–73
Corday, Charlotte, 70–71, 73
Crete, 93
cruelty, 18–24, 88; as cruor, 90; in Eighth Amendment, 9, 18–24, 28–29, 31, 34–46, 47, 160–62; of machine, 19; time as, 20. See also pain
Cullerier, Michel, 68–69
Daguerre, Louis, 81
Damiens, Robert-François, 60, 85, 89, 90, 185, 188
Danforth, Samuel, 63
Danton, Georges, 165, 184
Davis, Allen Lee, 90, 225n17, 229n4
Dayan, Colin, 159–62, 164
decency, evolving standards of, 29–46
Delaware, 120
democracy, 6
Derrida, Jacques, 13, 66, 90–92, 99, 105–6, 114–15, 120, 126–29, 138–39, 142–47, 159, 164, 165, 167–68, 177, 180, 182–83, 201–3
Dershowitz, Alan, 157
Descartes, René, 70, 72, 232n30
Desmoulins, Camille, 184
Desmoulins, Lucile, 184
Djandoubi, Hamida, 228n64
Djibouti, 152
Diaz, Angel, 89
Douglas, William O. (Justice), 30
drone, assassination by, 150–55, 160, 162, 168–81; as extra-polemological, 174–75; as military vigilantism, 164–65; as necro-ethics, 174; warfare, 11, 171–76
Dukakis, Michael, 159
Edmund v. Florida, 42, 224n17
electrocution, 21–22, 24–27, 89, 119
England, 24, 43–46, 59, 131
Enlai, Zhou, 123
Enlightenment (European), 10–11, 20, 41, 142; post-, 20, 41, 55, 125, 141, 188
Fanon, Frantz, 6
Fields, W. C., 119
Fieschi, Giuseppe Marco, 189
firing squad, 21, 27, 119
Florida, 8, 89, 229n4, 230n8
Flynn, Michael, 174
Foucault, Michel, 5, 12, 60, 65–66, 69, 72, 79, 186, 196–97, 203–4, 224n6, 226nn26,28
Foxcroft, Thomas, 63
Freud, Sigmund, 115, 233n46
Furman v. Georgia, 6, 18, 19, 20, 22, 29–30, 47–51, 157, 160, 221n6, 222n2, 242n28
Galilei, Galileo, 115–16
gas chamber, 37, 223n8
Genet, Jean, 126–27, 129
Gentil, Mano, 228n64
Ghana, 152
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (Justice), 18, 26, 28, 31, 57
Glissant, Édouard, 152
Goad, Benjamin, 63
Goldberg, Arthur (Justice), 157
Glossip, Richard, 7–8, 206
Glossip v. Gross, 1, 18, 19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 40, 50, 55–58, 84–86, 158, 221n1, 222n4, 224n2, 230n8
Greenwald, Glenn, 180
Gregg v. Georgia, 18, 19, 27, 32, 50, 156–58, 222n2, 242n28
Guantanamo Bay, 160, 161
Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace, 67–68, 71, 73–74, 76, 116
guillotine, 9, 67–82, 86, 87, 89–90, 100, 126–27, 131, 136, 139–41, 223n8
Guinea, 152
Al-Hallaj, 90
hanging, 20, 22, 59–61, 64, 89, 119, 155, 223n8
Harlan, John Marshall (Justice), 49–50, 157
Harvey, William, 115–16, 234n54
Hegel, G. W. F., 10, 92, 101–14, 116, 118, 130, 135, 139, 207–8, 232nn30,32, 238n25
Heidegger, Martin, 10, 93, 96–103, 106, 116, 145, 222n7, 236n9
Henri IV, 60
Hezbollah, 122
Hobbes, Thomas, 167, 172–73, 177, 234n54
Hryniewiecki, Ignacy, 122–23
Hugo, Victor, 5, 139, 147, 166, 190–91, 206, 228n71, 239n29
Hungary, 1
incarceration, 11, 162–63
India, 83, 221n2
Indiana, 56
Indonesia, 1, 83
injection, lethal, 1, 22, 27, 39, 117, 119
instantaneity, 7, 8, 10, 25, 36, 72, 86, 100, 119, 210, 212, 215–16; as absolutization, 124, 130, 135–37, 143, 145–47, 179; appropriation of, 11, 58, 67, 84–85, 117, 120, 145, 178–79, 213–14; in Blanchot, 142–46; of death, 22, 86; division of, 28, 73–74, 81–82, 144–46; instantanization, 11, 139; mechanical, 59–60, 62, 67–69, 73–74, 76, 79–81; as now in Aristotle/Hegel/Heidegger, 98–104, 106; photographic, 58–59, 62, 74–75, 78; as terror, 141 rights, human, 40–41
Iran, 42, 221n2
Iraq, 168, 181, 221n2
Islamic State, 1, 153, 83–85, 186, 229n80
Israel, 125
Jackson, Roscoe, 61, 119
Japan, 83, 122, 221n2
Jefferson, Thomas, 29–30
Jesus, 90–91
Joan of Arc, 90
Johnson, Ed, 156
Kafka, Franz, 12, 127–28, 206–14, 250n19
Kai-Shek, Chiang, 123–25
Kant, Immanuel, 20–21, 56, 89, 114, 128–29, 139, 172–73, 176, 222n7, 232n30, 237n17
Kemmler, In re, 20, 21–26, 28, 29, 37, 44, 120, 222n6
Kennedy, Anthony (Justice), 30–31, 38, 40
Kennedy v. Louisiana, 30, 31, 38–39, 40, 57, 158, 223n11
Kentucky, 23, 27, 61, 156
Kercheval, Samuel, 30
Khan, Dost Muhammad, 154
Khan, Kublai, 122
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (Field Marshal), 175
Kittler, Wolf, 251n39
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 240n39
La Fontaine, Jean de, 177, 182
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 72
Landry, Raymond, 89
Lasowski, Patrick Wald, 228n65
Lebanon, 122
Léotard, Jules, 119
Libya, 1, 221n2
Lincoln, Abraham, 159
Lockett, Clayton, 85, 89
Lockett v. Ohio, 50, 224n18
Louis XV, 60
Louis XVI (Louis Capet), 60, 66, 69, 132, 165–66, 190, 225n13, 229n1, 230n7, 248n6
Louis, Antoine, 68–69, 71–72
Louis-Philippe I, 187–89, 193, 248n6
Louisiana, 2, 24, 38
lynching, 56, 156–58, 164
McCollum, Henry, 55, 224n1, 224n2, 248n3
McGautha v. California, 29–30, 48, 49–51, 223n11
McGuire, Dennis, 89
Maine, 190
Malabou, Catherine, 103–6, 116
Mali, 152
Malraux, André, 123–25, 236n9
Mandela, Nelson, 6
Marat, Jean-Paul, 70, 132
Marder, Elissa, 228n65
Marshall, Thurgood (Justice), 18
Martin, Mary, 59
Martin, Trayvon, 244n48
Maryland, 44
Massachusetts, 24, 44
Masur, Louis P., 225n16
Mather, Cotton, 59, 63, 80, 83
Mauritania, 152
Meysonnier, Fernand, 75–78, 228n70
Michigan, 190
Missouri, 61, 229n4
Montaigne, Michel de, 120–21, 126, 141, 146, 148
Morel, Bénédict, 193, 249n12
Morocco, 29
Moulin, Patricia, 188
al-Nafis, Ibn, 115
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), 132, 165–66, 189, 248n6
narrative, 11, 197–203, 224n5; confession as, 11–12, 186–87; fiction, 12, 199–203, 215–16
Naas, Michael, 247n97
Nevada, 150, 169, 171, 177, 179, 230n18
New Hampshire, 44, 120
New Mexico, 162
New York (State), 2, 19, 21, 37, 119, 150, 169–70
Niépce, Joseph Nicéphore, 61, 81
Niger, 152
Nigeria, 42
Nixon, Richard, 18
North Carolina, 44, 64
Obama, Barack, 3, 152, 159, 168, 170, 174, 178, 181, 241n8, 243n48
O’Connor, Sandra Day (Justice), 31, 32–33, 34, 38, 47
Oelsner, Konrad Engelbert, 70
Ohio, 89
O’Keefe, Walter, 119
Oklahoma, 7–8, 33, 57, 85, 89, 221n7, 250n21
Oliver, Kelly, 228n65
Ophir, Adi, 246n90
Orbán, Viktor, 1
Paddock, Stephen, 189
pain, 20–25, 28–30; constitutionally permissible, 27, 37; as duration, 36; penalty as, 35. See also cruelty
Pakistan, 42, 153, 169, 171, 177, 221n2, 240n3, 244nn48,63
Paré, Ambroise, 115–16, 235n56
Pataki, George, 2
Patton, Paul, 249n17
Paul, Rand, 153, 155, 241n8
Pelletier, Nicolas Jacques, 69
Pennsylvania, 44
Philippines, The, 23, 43
photographer (executioner’s assistant), 74–78, 228nn64,70
photography, 10, 55, 58–59, 61–62, 188, 212, 249n16; and guillotine, 74, 75–76; and realism, 58, 78–83. See also instantaneity; visuality
Picard, Raymond, 5
Pilorge, Maurice, 126–27, 237n15
Pinel, Philippe, 69, 193, 249n12
poetry, 184
prayer, 168, 182–83
Préjean, Helen (Sister), 2
prosthesis, 8–9, 13–14, 49, 52, 72–73, 77, 91–92, 101, 105–6, 117–18, 129–30, 169–70, 177, 213, 214–15, 246n83
psychopathology, criminal, 188, 192–94, 248n5
Racine, Jean, 5
rape, 31, 38, 39, 57, 156–58
Ravaillac, François, 60, 90, 188
Rector, Ricky Ray, 159
Redfield, Marc, 236n9, 239n25
Redman, Don, 119
regicide, 60, 188–90
Resweber, Louisiana ex rel. Francis v., 19, 20, 22, 24–26, 28, 29, 84, 222n6, 230n8
revolution, 123–24, 134–36, 140–41; of 1848, 188, 191, 248n6; French, 10, 66–71, 73, 130–32, 165–66, 188, 190, 248n6; July, 189, 190, 191, 248n6; new, 146; Reign of Terror, 10, 60, 66, 68, 70–71, 73, 82, 130–32, 135–41
Rhode Island, 2, 190
Richardson, Bill, 162–63
rights, human, 40–41
Rivière, Pierre, 12, 186–205
Roberts, John (Justice), 37
Robespierre, Maximilien, 66, 131–32, 135–37, 140, 165, 184, 190, 247n103
Roper v. Simmons, 30, 31, 33–36, 41–43, 45, 56, 223n12
Rudolph, Frank Lee, 157
Rush, Benjamin, 161, 163
Russia, 122
Sade, Donatien Alphonse François (Marquis de), 131–32, 135, 138, 140, 165, 239n27
Saint Denis, 70
Saint-Just, Louis Antoine de, 137, 149, 184
Sanctorio, Sanctorio, 115
Sanders, Bernie, 3
Sanson, Charles-Henri, 68, 229n1
Sarat, Austin, 78, 224n5
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 5
Saudi Arabia, 42, 83, 221n2
Scalia, Antonin (Justice), 29, 32, 33–36, 38, 40, 42–43, 45–46, 47–48, 54–58, 186, 224n2, 225n17
Schmidt, Tobias, 68
Schmitt, Carl, 167, 169–70, 172, 173
secrecy, 11, 179–81
Senegal, 152
Serbia, 2
sermon, execution, 62–65, 80, 186
Shaw, Leander (Justice), 90, 225n17, 229n4, 230n8
Shipp, Tom, 56
slavery, 11, 152–67
Smith, Abe, 56
Socrates, 10, 90, 92–96, 97, 98, 116, 142
Somalia, 42, 150, 152, 153, 154, 168, 169, 171, 240n3, 244n48
Sömmering, Samuel Thomas von, 70
Sotomayor, Sonia (Justice), 1, 26, 57, 230n8
Souter, David (Justice), 26
South Africa, 2
Sri Lanka, 122
Stalin, Joseph, 123
Stanford v. Kentucky, 30, 32–36, 40, 47, 223n12
Steiker, Carol S., 155–58, 223n16
Steiker, Jordan M., 155–58, 223n16
Stevens, John Paul (Justice), 18, 30, 31
Stewart, Potter (Justice), 51
Stuart, Mary, 70
Sudan, 152, 175, 221n2
Sue, Jean-Joseph, 70, 72
suicide, 3–4, 121, 126–29, 137, 140; bombing, 10, 121–26, 147–49, 150–51, 179–80, 186, 235n6, 236n7
Syria, 181, 221n2
Taiwan, 83
Talbye, Dorothy, 59
Tamil Tigers, 122
temporality, 10, 13, 117–18, 211–12, 214, 216; chronological of crime, 194–200, 203, 205; of deliberation and decision, 200–5; denaturalized, 14; as duration, 20, 23, 28, 36; interruption of, 14–15, 95, 118; as machine, 9, 13–14, 19–20, 46, 51, 106, 116, 118, 207–9, 215; and mortality in Socrates, 10, 93–96; and mortality in Heidegger, 10, 93, 96–102, 106; originary, 104–6, 116; as prosthesis, 10, 13–14, 129, 213–15; as speed, 22; of wordmachine 203–6
Tennessee, 156
terrorism, 10–11, 122–24, 130, 137, 140–42, 146–47, 215
Texas, 89, 159, 168
Thomas, Clarence (Justice), 39, 43, 47, 55–58, 62, 80, 83–86, 158, 161, 185–86, 224nn2,4, 225n17
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 30, 32–36, 38, 40–42, 47, 223n12
Toobin, Jeffrey, 55
torture, 20, 23–24, 60, 65–67, 69, 71, 84–86, 95, 139
Trop v. Dulles, 29, 31, 33, 38, 40–41, 44, 48, 166, 223n10
Trump, Donald, 3, 152, 168, 174, 181
Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, 1
Tucker, Karla Faye, 168
Tunisia, 2–3, 152
Utah, 19, 119, 229n4
Valéry, Paul, 177
Virginia, 30, 44, 153
visuality, 10, 224n5, 226n26; graphic, 55–56; of execution as spectacle, 61–62, 64–66, 73–74, 79–84, 90, 225n17. See also blood; photography
Vitale, Francesco, 230n9
Washington (State), 120
Weber, Elisabeth, 242n34
Weems v. United States, 19, 20, 23–24, 29, 40, 43, 44, 48, 160, 222n6
Weidmann, Eugen, 127, 226n33, 228n70, 237n15
Weizman, Eyal, 176
West, Cornel, 243n48
White, Edmund, 237n15
White, Edward Douglass (Justice), 24, 44
Wilkerson v. Utah, 20–24, 26–29, 36–38, 41, 222n6
Wisconsin, 190
Woodson v. North Carolina, 50, 224n19
Yemen, 42, 150, 153, 154, 169, 171, 179, 182, 184, 221n2, 240n3, 244nn48,63
Zimmerman, George, 244n48
Zimring, Frank, 164, 221n5
Zola, Émile, 5