Featured Nonfiction - A Brief Essay Against All Murder, and the Death Penalty

Anthony J. Gavin's debut on The Blasted Tree is no small feat of creative nonfiction. His philosophical look at killing as an act of just condemnation does what so few essays are willing to do: examine its own principles. In so doing, Gavin has mounted a passionate attack against the practice of all murder, state-sanctioned or otherwise, an essay both experimental in form and fundamental in its ethical ramifications. This essay is a must read for philosophic minds of all stripe.

READ A BRIEF ESSAY AGAINST ALL MURDER, AND THE DEATH PENALTY