HeyJaredGraphic Dead Man Walking
Musings on the landscape of civil rights and how we can use art to create social change.
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A Substack sabbatical (opens the original)
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I have decided it’s time for me to take a break from writing this weekly newsletter, which I’ve been writing with only a few weeks off since February, 2024. I want to spend the next few months focused on another of my work tasks: designing, building, maintaining, and writing content for the Ministry Against the Death Penalty‘s websites.One of those sites is the companion site for this newsletter, which we’re creating as a resource site for students who read Dead Man Walking - Graphic Edition in
A short break (opens the original)
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No article last week and just a sketch of some future articles this week. I’ve had a plague of headaches and I’m giving my brain a rest.I’m keeping an eye on imminent executions in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, and one that Florida carried out this week. Each raises its own serious issues while sharing a common, central theme: The implacable desire of some states to carry out executions no matter what.Florida executed Daniel Conahan this past week despite his request for DNA testing still lan
I look so artificial but I am so totally real (opens the original)
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“Our republic does not kill” (opens the original)
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Doubling down (opens the original)
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For those of you within hiking distance of New Orleans, you can catch Sister Helen and me together with Elizabeth Vertkessian, at the Garden District Bookshop on Tuesday the 11th at 6pm. At a time when othering is government policy and we are exhorted to dehumanize those who are not of “our group”, Liz’s book, The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal About American Justice, takes us deeply in the opposite direction.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://su
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