Legacy After Loss

2023-

The Legacy After Loss collection contains interviews, personal papers, artwork, correspondence, artifacts, and tributes that pay homage to people who have been killed by the death penalty or who have died while on death row in the United States.

This collection explores the building of legacy—both as a communal effort led by people facing execution at the hands of the state, and as a process of remembrance and grief-work carried out by their loved ones after their death.

The relationships highlighted in this collection include bonds between incarcerated writers and their pen pal(s), friendships borne out of spiritual counsel, and the relationships between those who are incarcerated and their loved ones on the outside.