Breaking bodies into pieces: Time, torture and bio-power

Cary Federman; Dave Holmes

doi:10.1007/s10612-005-3187-9

Breaking bodies into pieces: Time, torture and bio-power

Cary Federman
, Dave Holmes

Justice Studies

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Abstract

This article is an attempt to comprehend the bureaucratic phenomenon of the deathwatch, the last 24 hours of a prisoner's life, stressing the theoretical applications scholars can make to the study of docile bodies on death row. Because years of work are necessary to obtain obedience from condemned inmates, health care professionals lend more than an aura of legitimacy to the capital punishment process. As an integral part of the prison and capital punishment, they provide stability, reliability, and the means to achieve the goals of peaceful executions. The ultimate objective of utilizing health care professionals is the sanitization of penal practice and penal language to effect the complete absence of resistance from the condemned.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	327-345
Number of pages	19
Journal	Critical Criminology
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-005-3187-9
State	Published - Jan 2005

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