Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment

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Artist/Maker	Peg Averill (artist)
Place of origin	USA (made)

Offset lithograph poster critical of the prison-industrial complex and wealth inequality showing an illustration of a black man hanging and a white man in an electric chair. Lettered 'Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment'. Printed at The Print Shop, Smithtown, New York.

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Categories	Posters Politics Death
Object type	Poster
Title	Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Offset lithograph poster on an orange ground
Brief description	"Capital Punishment" by Peg Averill for the War Resisters League. USA, c. 1978.
Physical description	Offset lithograph poster critical of the prison-industrial complex and wealth inequality showing an illustration of a black man hanging and a white man in an electric chair. Lettered 'Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment'. Printed at The Print Shop, Smithtown, New York.
Marks and inscriptions	Signed "peg averill/ Liberation News Service". Bottom edge centre is printed "War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012 (212) 228-0405."
Credit line	Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Subjects depicted	Capital Punishment Prison Death Equality
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.775-2004

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1023199/capital-punishment-means-them-without-poster-peg-averill/

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