Deathwatching

My name is Rachel Cunliffe Hardesty. I live in Oregon, USA and have been involved in a project to discover the meaning of the death penalty to Oregonians for the past 8 years.

My primary methodology is a variation of a listening project, where I meet in a variety of venues with people to whom the death penalty matters.

This is my blog. Here I will tell you some of the stories I have heard in my travels around the state, ponder some of the ideas that have come to me as a result, and relate my work on the ground to the wider national and international context experienced through media, study, and connections with people involved in that bigger milieu.

My aim is to use this writing space to further my thinking, and to broaden the dialogue about the death penalty through knowledge of the impact it has on one particular community in America.