The Geronimo Bank Murrs exam the tersectn of homosexualy and pal punishment through the lens of cultural cricism, queer theory, and legal analysis. The paper's subject is Jay Neill, who was executed 2002 for murrg four people a gome Geronimo, Oklahoma bank robbery 1984, and for beg gay. Current pal punishment doctre perms, and perhaps even enurag, such rults. The Geronimo Bank Murrs rests Neill's story, privilegg homosexualy and genr, and that acunt to make three pots, each based law, culture, and polics. First, as a matter of legal doctre, regnizg the error g homosexualy to obta a ath sentence requir a normative judgment about gay inty, one that urts are creasgly prepared to make. Send, the gay-centric readg of Neill's trial reveals the shallow leralism of harmls error review of pal sentencg errors, the chief mechanism through which flawed verdicts such as Neill's are executed. Fally, the terpretatn of Neill's life, crim as well as punishment, as a gay story efully challeng and dispts the valorizg and assiative tennci of the gay rights movement.
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IS SARAH GERONIMO GAY?
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The Geronimo Bank Murrs exam the tersectn of homosexualy and pal punishment through the lens of cultural cricism, queer theory, and legal analysis.
The paper's subject is Jay Neill, who was executed 2002 for murrg four people a gome Geronimo, Oklahoma bank robbery 1984, and for beg gay. The Geronimo Bank Murrs rests Neill's story, privilegg homosexualy and genr, and that acunt to make three pots, each based law, culture, and polics.