Putting the person in the picture: An examination of the lived experience of entry, assimilation, and adaptation on death row

• In Event: DCS Handbook on Lived Experiences: Studies of Lived Experience

Abstract

Persons convicted of capital crimes are condemned to die, and that is a central fact of their existence. They are also condemned to years of confinement on death row, where they must forge a daily round of life for the duration of their sentences, which can run into decades. This article focuses on lived experience of death row confinement as prisoners forge a life in the shadow of executions.

Authors

• Robert Johnson, American University

• George T. Wilkerson, None

• Moriah Sharpe, American University