a.k.a. Joan Dayan
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New fiction in Boston Review (July/August 2009), "Between the devil and the deep sea"
Click Here Read her latest book The Story of Cruel and Unusual A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. |
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- "Dangerous dogs," London Review of Books
- "Between the devil and the deep sea," Boston Review
- "Prison Studies" Page 1 - Page 2
- Out of Defeat: Aimé Césaire’s Miraculous Words
- "Words Behind Bars", Boston Review
- Watch "Words Behind Bars" on YouTube
- Watch "The Story of Cruel and Unusual" on YouTube
- "The White Tree", London Review of Books
- "The Least Worst Place", London Review of Books
- nashvillescene.com
- www.ucpress.edu
- www.history.upenn.edu
- www.louisville.edu
- www.kersplebedeb.com
- www.bostonreview.net
- webcast.rice.edu
- www.vanderbilt.edu
"Dead Dogs: Breed bans, euthanasia, and preemptive justice" featured in:
"Idea of the Day Blog" in New York Times:
ideas.blogs.nytimes.com
Andrew Sullivan's blog for Atlantic Monthly:
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Harpers:
harpers.org
'Cruel and Unusual' Execution Debate
How the 8th Amendment became germane to death penalty law.
By Colin Dayan
COLIN DAYAN, who teaches the legal and religious history of the Americas at Vanderbilt University, is the author of "The Story of Cruel and Unusual," forthcoming from Boston Review/MIT Press.
September 30 2006
FOR THE LAST WEEK, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has been considering the case of Michael Morales, who was sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of Terri Winchell in Lodi, Calif. The question facing the judge is whether lethal injection — California's preferred method of execution — violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual" punishment.
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'Crossing the line'
"There's a series of stories we tell ourselves," writes Jeremy Waldron in his foreword to Colin Dayan's "The Story of Cruel and Unusual" (Boston Review Books/MIT Press: 100 pp., $14.95), to make us feel better "about the shameful use of torture by American soldiers and intelligence operatives" in places like Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Yet such stories, this incendiary little book tells us, are just fictions that mask who we really are.
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