Death penalty and prison abolition are linked goals, not separate campaigns

Evidence

A critical engagement with this dichotomy would involve taking seriously the possibility of linking the goal of death penalty abolitionism with strategies for prison abolition. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 281

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to prior reading on capital punishment history and the prison’s emergence as dominant punishment. — connects to: Slavery’s abolition parallels the conceivable abolition of prisons

Related

• Abolition requires a continuum of alternatives, not prisonlike substitutes (similarity 0.81)
• The penitentiary mirrored chattel slavery in its structure and daily regime. (similarity 0.79)
• Punishment follows politics, corporate profit, and media, not crime itself (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Slavery’s abolition parallels the conceivable abolition of prisons #corroborates (0.55)