The Grouch Reads

L. Wacquant's Punishing the Poor; The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

From a paragraph describing what politicians do to prove they are tough on crime...

"During his 1992 nomination campaign, Bill Clinton made a point of interrupting his electoral tour in the northeast to rush back to Arkansas and attend inperson the putting to death of Ricky Ray Rector, a deeply mentally impaired convict--his last wish was to have his dessert set aside so that he could eat it after his execution--whom Clinton had refused to save from the gallows as governor."
p. 174, Chapter Five, "The Coming of Carceral 'Big Government.'"