A trauma framework is applied to the experiences of execution team members. A directed content analysis of three seminal publications on executioners at work is used to investigate how execution team members respond to observing and participating in executions, a potentially traumatic stressor....

As a guiding principle of incarceration, prisons should aim to maintain safe and rehabilitative environments. The key contextual factors that undergird such environments are access to purposeful activities and humane conditions of confinement. Independent authoritative reviews conducted by the...