Until Dead: Thoughts on Capital Punishment
Mailer's roughly 5,000-word essay on capital punishment for Parade, prompted by the experience of writing The Executioner's Song; his first appearance in the magazine, with a cover photograph.
“Until Dead: Thoughts on Capital Punishment,” an essay of approximately 5,000 words in Parade (8 February 1981), prompted by the experience of writing The Executioner’s Song (79.14) and the execution of Gary Gilmore. It was Mailer’s first appearance in Parade, and the issue carried his cover photograph. Reprinted in Mind of an Outlaw (13.1).
Related pages
- The Executioner’s Song (79.14) | Gary Gilmore | 1981
- The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1)