![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His witness will be a girl named Blue Harrison. In several hours, he is due to be transferred from Polunsky to the Walls Unit, where his execution will take place via lethal injection. He is called the Girly Killer after his pattern of targeting adolescent girls. In second person, present-tense narration, Ansel contemplates his crimes. In the novel’s opening chapter, death row inmate Ansel Packer awakens in Polunsky prison on the day of his execution. This guide references the 2022 William Morrow print edition.Ĭontent Warning: Notes on an Execution depicts physical and sexual abuse and assault, including the physical abuse of a child, the death of an infant, homicide, and a brief mention of suicide. She reimagines Ansel as a traumatized, cruel, and pathetic man unworthy of public curiosity. Along the way, Kukafka deconstructs the modern idea of the serial killer and critically examines the label of psychopath. As Ansel awaits lethal injection, Notes on an Execution reaches back through time in narratives that expose the pitfalls of consuming true crime as entertainment, explore the lasting effects of trauma, and probe the question of why more media attention is given to killers than to their victims. Kukafka uses the story of serial murderer Ansel Packer to anchor the narratives of three women whose lives have been touched by his violence. ![]()
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