{"id":4283,"date":"2020-12-12T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2020-12-12T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T14:18:44","slug":"lachance-interviewed-by-le-devoir-on-trumps-embrace-of-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2020\/12\/12\/lachance-interviewed-by-le-devoir-on-trumps-embrace-of-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"LaChance Interviewed by &#8216;Le Devoir&#8217; on Trump&#8217;s Embrace of Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lachance-daniel.html\">Daniel LaChance<\/a>, Associate Professor and Winship Distinguished Research Professor in History, 2020-23, gave an interview to the Quebec newspaper <em>Le Devoir<\/em> on the Trump administration\u2019s last-minute push to carry out executions in its final months. LaChance is a legal scholar working at the intersection of American legal and cultural history, criminology, and literary studies. His first book is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/E\/bo16393214.html\"><em>Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2016). Read an excerpt below along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/monde\/etats-unis\/591544\/etats-unis-trump-fait-le-vide-dans-le-couloir-de-la-mort\">full article<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;The Trump administration enthusiastically embraced the death penalty, summarizes Historian Daniel LaChance<\/em>,<em> who teaches at Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, i<em>n an interview with <\/em><\/em>Le Devoir<em>. &#8216;In this respect, you can even say that Donald Trump is the deadliest president since the nineteenth century. His provocative support for the death penalty was a key part of his <\/em>Make America Great Again<em> platform.&#8217; And obviously, he intends to take his project to the end.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daniel LaChance, Associate Professor and Winship Distinguished Research Professor in History, 2020-23, gave an interview to the Quebec newspaper Le Devoir on the Trump administration\u2019s last-minute push to carry out executions in its final months. LaChance is a legal scholar working at the intersection of American legal and cultural history, criminology, and literary studies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}