In this talk, Daniel LaChance, a professor of history at Emory University, will consider the place of capital punishment in the American cultural imagination. The talk will be followed by a roundtable featuring Jennifer Vitry, Executive Director of NOLA Investigates, and Seth Kotch, professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill.

The event is part of a series organized by the Humanities Writ Large Emerging network “Mass Incarceration and the Carceral State.”