A thorough analysis of capital punishment from a political–geographical perspective is lacking in the discipline of geography. This is despite the fact that capital punishment overlaps with numerous geographic approaches, concepts, and areas of study. This study serves as a call to geographers to begin considering capital punishment's wide interaction and interrelation with developed areas of knowledge in the discipline. Specifically, political geographers stand to contribute in novel ways to wider discussions about capital punishment by analyzing executions relative to contemporary work in geography on violent, legal, and carceral spaces. I first introduce the need for geography's engagement with this pressing issue. Then, I clarify several terms needed to understand this violent practice. A third section highlights several pathways of development in the critical geographies of capital punishment. It is organized around four broad themes—critically mapping capital punishment, bodies in motion, politics of access, and executing the “other”—connecting capital punishment to developing concepts, literatures, and subdisciplines in geography. The final two sections outline an epistemological approach to the geographies of capital punishment and how legal and carceral geographies might contribute.

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死刑地区：新的方向和干预措施

地理学科缺乏从政治地理角度对死刑的全面分析。尽管有这样的事实，死刑与许多地理方法，概念和研究领域重叠。这项研究呼吁地理学家开始考虑死刑与该学科知识领域的广泛互动和相互联系。具体而言，政治地理学家可以通过分析与暴力，法律和监护空间有关的当代地理工作的死刑，以新颖的方式为更广泛的死刑讨论做出贡献。首先，我介绍了地理介入这一紧迫问题的必要性。然后，我阐明了理解这种暴力行为所需的几个术语。第三部分重点介绍了死刑的关键地区的几种发展途径。它围绕四个广泛的主题进行组织—严厉地绘制死刑，运动中的物体，进入的政治以及执行“其他” —将死刑与发展中的概念，文学和地理学科联系起来。最后两节概述了对死刑地域的认识论方法，以及法律和监狱地域可能如何做出贡献。