Right to “Life”: The Cruel Contradiction of Exceptions to the Death Penalty for Pregnant People

Author:

Trejbalova Tereza1,Sufrin Carolyn B.2,Kotlar Bethany3,Saunders Jennifer4,Mason Ellen5,Sherman Jenna6,Shlafer Rebecca J.4

Affiliation:

1. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

2. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

3. Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

4. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

5. University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

6. UCLA Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abstract

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.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Reference49 articles.

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2. Committee Opinion No 579

3. Science and the Death Penalty: DNA, Innocence, and the Debate over Capital Punishment in the United States

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