This chapter uses the botched execution to interrupt the fantasy of the possibility of a humane death penalty. While the practice of lethal injection is designed to make capital punishment seem humane by making death instantaneous, during botched executions, the condemned die in visible and measurable real time. The chapter additionally examines the structure of the seminars themselves, arguing that Derrida's constant digressions and asides themselves serve to conjure an alternative temporality, allowing him to construct his argument performatively.
Lethal Injection Euthanasia
