... medical clemency. By situating the 1915 pellagra prison experiment amid the broader landscape of incarceration, public health research, and systems of political patronage in Mississippi, this paper highlights the ways in which penal systems are embedded in broader social and political contexts. Not only...

...This chapter first distinguishes between clemency, pity, and compassion. It then discusses how Tecmessa and Odysseus both feel compassion for Ajax and how they use it in different ways. Odysseus's compassion holds him back from action upon seeing Ajax in his rage. Tecmessa's compassion rises from...

..., Just Mercy and Clemency, which feature Black protagonists and allow audiences to imagine Black men and women and their relation to capital law in altogether new, and critical, ways. ambiguity race Just Mercy Clemency imaginary Imagining the American death penalty...

...“Health Activism” is a comparative chapter that demonstrates how Puerto Rican and Dominican prisoners, their families, and their wider communities attempted to mitigate the worst effects of incarceration via executive clemency. Between the 1930s and midcentury, clemency processes in Puerto Rico...

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...This chapter offers a brief institutional history of McCloy’s 1950 Advisory Board on Clemency for German War Criminals as a case study in how the best of intentions and hopes for “American Justice” could succumb to muddled bureaucratic mandates, questionable operating procedures, and a flawed...

...This chapter analyzes the Advisory Board’s recommendations that seventy-six of the eighty-nine Nuremberg war criminals deserved clemency. The Board systematically questioned the parameters of individual guilt or responsibility as established by the Nuremberg tribunals, at times coming dangerously...

...This chapter explores the rationale behind John McCloy’s final clemency decisions in January 1951 and the public backlash that quickly followed. In granting mass reprieves to the Landsberg prisoners, McCloy implicitly and explicitly called into question the validity of the Nuremberg trials...

...This chapter considers how and why, even after the mass clemency of 1951, McCloy and his successors continued tinkering with the Nuremberg sentences from 1951 to 1953 in an accelerating spiral of American, British, and French revision. Given that the Landsberg prisoners were already beneficiaries...

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...Clemency tends to make philosophers of punishment uncomfortable, whatever their predilections. For retributivists it is problematic because it threatens equality of treatment and introduces disproportionality. For utilitarians it is problematic because it involves a departure from what would best...

...v . . . the gallows is not merely a machine of death, but the oldest and most obscene symbol of that tendency in mankind which drives it towards moral self-d estruction. Arthur Koestler, Reflections on Hanging, 1956 Justice, Mercy, and Caprice: Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland. First...

... of jury nullification and executive clemency as well as the relative acceptance of prosecutorial discretion. It then considers the centrality of judges in administrative law and the place of mercy in criminal law. It concludes with a normative critique, based on key differences between criminal law...

...-rich, letters between Julius and Ethel. It then examines an organization for a new trial or clemency: the National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case. The chapter pays particular attention to their first press release, and analyzes how the release played up the Jewish angle, noting...

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..., as idealizing the one who so prays, without having any effect on the prayer’s object, thereby functioning analogously to the Roman discourse of clemency. Those who read the prayer otherwise landed upon this radical challenge, which explains the prayer’s complicated reception history, including the scribal...

... Ministry of Justice recommending the denial of clemency emphasized, as recommendations for execution had done since the 1880s, the public interest which the case had aroused. But in the Weimar Republic it was more legitimate than it had been before to cite public demand for execution...

... the death penalty. So, in a classic example of the way in which conservative civil servants managed to undermine, or disregard, the authority of left-of-centre governments in the Weimar Republic, officials in the Ministry of Justice began refusing to forward clemency cases to the Prussian cabinet. This left...

...This chapter examines the politics underlying the shifts in the conduct of governors in the exercise of executive clemency in the United States since the 1950s. In particular, it considers how the governor, from being a little “New Deal” executive derivative of the national government in Washington...

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