RT Article
T1 Right to “Life”: The Cruel Contradiction of Exceptions to the Death Penalty for Pregnant People
JF The prison journal
VO 104
IS 4
SP 449
OP 471
A1 Trejbalova, Tereza
A2 Sufrin, Carolyn B.
A2 Kotlar, Bethany
A2 Saunders, Jennifer
A2 Mason, Ellen
A2 Sherman, Jenna
A2 Shlafer, Rebecca J.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/190189293X
AB The death penalty debate intensifies when condemned women are considered, at least in part because of the associations society holds between womanhood and motherhood. Consequently, the concept of motherhood inherently permeates every condemned woman's sentence. Using qualitative document analysis, we examine how pregnancy is accounted for in the death penalty statutes and execution protocols. In half of U.S. states, exceptions exist in the statutes preventing executions of pregnant people, but pregnancy is rarely mentioned in execution protocols. The findings highlight aspects of reproductive injustice.
K1 Women
K1 execution
K1 Pregnancy
K1 Death Penalty
DO 10.1177/00328855241263499