“Pax Americana” is my reflection on the death penalty. While contemplating a name for this mosaic, I came across my title in the introduction to Mark Lewis Taylor’s book “The Executed God.” During early Christianity, the Caesars enforced Pax Romana, which promoted the façade of peace at all costs. Similar to the controlling Roman peace, “Pax Americana” represents a perversion of justice. Within this dehumanizing practice, Jesus was executed on the cross on Good Friday. His death was one of many, resulting from this common, terror-provoking tool utilized by the powerful Roman regime to maintain an illusion of peace rather than embracing the reality of true peace. “Pax Americana” artistically represents my hope to abolish capital punishment.

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