Friends,
I am trying to find information on memoires/confessions written by
convicts before they were put to death, much like the Pierre Riviere case
reported by Foucault and others. I wonder whether such writings were
relatively rare/common and if and where the practice has been discussed in
secondary literature. I have found a source similar to Rivierre's. Also on
the internet there is a related document of a pastor witnessing an
execution (cf. the opening pages of Discipline and Punish).
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6220/
Many thanks,
Mathieu
Mathieu Deflem
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Purdue University
1365 Stone Hall
W. Lafayette IN 47907
DeflemM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am trying to find information on memoires/confessions written by
convicts before they were put to death, much like the Pierre Riviere case
reported by Foucault and others. I wonder whether such writings were
relatively rare/common and if and where the practice has been discussed in
secondary literature. I have found a source similar to Rivierre's. Also on
the internet there is a related document of a pastor witnessing an
execution (cf. the opening pages of Discipline and Punish).
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6220/
Many thanks,
Mathieu
Mathieu Deflem
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Purdue University
1365 Stone Hall
W. Lafayette IN 47907
DeflemM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx