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23 Cardozo L. Rev. 1493 (2001-2002)
Amusing Monsters

handle is hein.journals/cdozo23 and id is 1515 raw text is: AMUSING MONSTERS* Anthony Paul Farley** When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition, by Austin Sarat. Princeton University Press, 2001. 324 pp. Once upon a time, in Bohemia, there was a flourishing industry which seems to have fallen off. One would take children, slit their lips, compress their skulls and keep them in a box day and night to prevent them from growing. As a result of this and similar treatment, the children were turned into amusing monsters who brought in handsome profits.' - Jean-Paul Sartre Why can't we go and see the hanging? roared the boy in his huge voice. Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging! chanted the little girl, still capering round. Some... prisoners.., were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered. This happened about once a month, and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamored to be taken to see it. 2 - George Orwell * © Anthony Paul Farley 2001. ** Associate Professor, Boston College Law School; Visiting Professor, Golden Gate University School of Law 2001-2002. Former Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. J.D. Harvard Law School. I thank Austin Sarat for his timely contribution to the new abolition movement. I thank the editors of the Cardozo Law Review for their assistance. I thank Phyllis Goldfarb for sharing her experiences as a death penalty lawyer and for organizing Healing the Wounds of Murder, a national conference sponsored by Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation along with Boston College on June 7-10, 2001. I thank the participants in Crime, Corrections, & Social Justice, a faculty seminar of the Jesuit Institute at Boston College, for our conversations over the years. I thank Keith Aoki and Ruth-Arlene W. Howe. I thank David Benjamin Oppenheimer, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Golden Gate University School of Law, for his comments on this essay and for making my visit this year an extraordinary one. I thank Dean Peter Keane, Cynthia Childress, Marc Gaudette, Gigi Grady, Susan Nadeau and the entire Golden Gate University community for being such wonderful hosts. Finally, I thank Maria Grahn- Farley for her love, encouragement and insight. 1 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, SAINT GENET: ACTOR AND MARTYR 23 (Bernard Frechtman trans., George Braziller 1963) (1952). 2 GEORGE ORWELL, 1984, at 23 (First Plume 1983) (1949). 1493

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