Revenge Carries a Body Count: Justice, Accountability, and the Lives We Failed to Protect
Revenge Carries a Body Count: Justice, Accountability, and the Lives We Failed to Protect Reflections on Will Trent, capital punishment, LGBTQ+ history, institutional prejudice, and the difference between justice and revenge. I. It Started With a Television Show Sometimes my thoughts take me down a rabbit hole that begins with something seemingly insignificant. I might be watching a television series or a movie, hear a line of dialogue, recognize a familiar character trait, or remember something from another story. Before I know it, I am thinking about history, psychology, politics, philosophy, and the contradictions of human behavior. This time, it started with Will Trent . I was watching the fourth-season episode "Our Last Dance," which deals with the aftermath of Amanda Wagner's murder and the pursuit of Adelaide. At one point, I found myself comparing one of Adelaide's followers to Dewey Crowe from Justified . It was an amusing observation, but the episode itsel...