Been reflecting a lot on one tiny article W.E.B DuBois wrote about the 1922 execution of Luther Boddy who got the death sentence for killing two police. It's one of the more poignant articulations of how an unfair society and militarism creates Luther Boddys for the purpose of elimination.
Just a stunning and direct piece of writing. It's quoted in my book when I talk about politician's hopes that criminal law would become a kind of omnipotent and faceless force of nature--here imagined by DuBois as an instrument of eradication.
