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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