Jonathan Fink
Jonathan Fink is an Associate Professor and the Director of Creative Writing at the University of West Florida. He has received fellowships from the NEA, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the St. Botolph Foundation and Emory University. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Slate, Witness, VQR and other journals. Fink has received the Editors' Prize in Poetry from The Missouri Review.
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A Brief History of Execution
1. Written in 1772 BC, Hammurabi’s Code contains the earliest known laws for justifiable execution. 2. For example, if a man accuses another man of an injustice, the accused man will be plunged into a river, and, if innocent, he …