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Jan 1
Jan 1
Guest Editorial – The Rarest of the Rare – Job Vacancy for A Hangman – Any Takers? : Penology after Derrida
By Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
Derrida’s Death Penalty seminars have just been translated into English and this issue of Café Dissensus marks this great occasion to widen the debate initiated by Derrida in his seminars.
Jan 1
An Interview with Prof. Peggy Kamuf
By Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
The last public execution in France took place in June 1939. Because of a miscalculation, it was light enough by the time the guillotine blade dropped that photographers and even a cameraman filming clandestinely were able to capture images that were quickly published in newspapers and magazines.
An Endangered Clause: The Death Penalty in Zambia
By Cheela Himutwe K Chilala
And probably this explains why Nelson Mandela concluded that "the death sentence is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings". For these reasons, we urge all the Zambian people to demand the removal of the death sentence from their statute books, from their Constitution.
Revisiting the ‘Karachi Resolution’: The Genealogy of Reintroducing Capital Punishment in India
By Sanchayita Paul Chakrabarty & Dhritiman Chakrabarty
The Vedic scriptures, Manusamhita and Bhagvada Gita talk of capital punishment in a supportive vein but they insist that capital punishment should be performed by the right person of character. In fact, they are more in favour of the karmic justice which the convict will suffer in the next birth for his Karma, his sin.
Who is the Real Criminal? Questions after the Punishment
By Bolan Gangapadhyay
Ramua walks up the roads of Delhi every morning in search of works, either in garages, tea shops, road side hotels, and if luck smiles, he gets 30-40 Rs a day for his survival.
Indian Judiciary and the Issue of Capital Punishment
By Sujato Bhadra
But this was shamelessly denied to Maqbool Butt in 1984, who was tried by a British colonial Ordinance –The Enemy Agents ordinance, 1943 – and recently to Afzal Guru, the prime convict of parliament attack.
From Homines Sacri to Homo Sacer: Punishing the Immanent Sinister Inside
By Subhendra Bhowmick
While this is more reasonable on the part of the lion-king, the subject animals would do better if they revolt. But what if they are themselves somehow obliged to offer this tribute? Often death penalty draws justifications through some kind of immanent ‘guilt’-consciousness of the people, when taken one at a time.
Death Penalty of the Witches and the Micro-physics of Power
By Samita Manna and Soumyajit Patra
Though witch killings, in politico-administrative discourses, are treated as incidents of murder, these are nothing but examples of capital punishments given by the community, based on the definition of the situation as per its customary laws, to the offenders – the witches, to avert further damages.
Death, Life, and Law
By Saitya Brata Das
This forgiveness cannot exhaustively be realized within the negotiated realm of possibilities and conditionalities which often, as we have seen above, uses the logic of ultimatum belonging to the capacities and authorities of the sovereign power.
Schizo-analyzing Death Sentences: Death, Territory, Capital
By Saswat Samay Das
It is the populist imagination of death, evident within those populist artworks – imaginative sketches, cartoon networks and comics that feed our nascent pre-mature imagination – as a hooded figure with a rope or an axe or as that cruel parting shot which the frightful, towering figure of Yama, the lord of death riding an equally frightful buffalo.
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