Murder and Its Consequences: Essays on Capital Punishment in America
Title: Murder and Its Consequences: Essays on Capital Punishment in America Year: 2011 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Northwestern University Press Description: The essays in Murder and Its Consequences span several periods in the history of capital punishment in America and the professional career of Leigh Bienen, a leading researcher on the death penalty. “A Good Murder” describes […]
Socially-Assisted Dying: Media, Money, & Meaning
Title: Socially-Assisted Dying: Media, Money, & Meaning Year: 1998 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy Issue: Vol. 7, Issue 2, Article 2 Description: Introductory remarks to a legal medical conference held in 1998. My comments are about assisted suicide as a subcategory of homicide. We’ve been hearing about assisted suicide […]
Anomalies: Ritual and Language in Lethal Injection Regulations
Title: Anomalies: Ritual and Language in Lethal Injection Regulations Year: 2008 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Fordham Urban Law Journal Issue: Volume 35, No. 4 Description: The state lethal injection protocols do not regulate lethal injections, but instead describe hypothetical rituals meant to reassure the reader—whomever that might be—that a controlled and orderly process, in […]
Technician
Title: Technician Year: 1998 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: TriQuarterly Issue: Issue 104, Article 4, pp. 192-271 Description: A short novel about an unemployed young man from Trenton, New Jersey, who through a series of circumstances applies for and gets a newly-created job of execution technician with the State of New Jersey which focuses on […]