Capital Punishment
Peg Averill, War Resisters League
1978
DIMENSIONS
20 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. (52.1 x 42.5 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.7834
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
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This is one of a series of posters by political activist and artist Peg Averill for the War Resisters League (WRL). Her vivid, sketchy image of a Black man hanging in a noose and a white man strapped to an electric chair, points to the systemic racism and economic bias of the U.S. justice system, and calls for an end to capital punishment. Averill was active in the antiwar and social- justice movements of the sixties and seventies, contributing significantly to the WRL’s work with protest art of this kind. She was also involved with the National Organization for Women (NOW) in addition to other political organizations and publications.

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